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Bachelor of Applied Science (Integrated Resource Management)
- Duration: 3 Years Fulltime (or equivalent part-time)
- Location: St Lucia Campus, Brisbane
- External Study Option Available: This program is generally available both internally and externally
- Entry Requirements: Standard Qld Year 12 plus English, Chemistry and Maths B
- QTAC Codes: 703 031
- 2006 Entry Score: OP 12, Rank 75
- Honours: Available as an extra year of study
What is Integrated Resource Management?
Integrated Resource Management is a new cutting edge field that deals with the management especially on the complex interactions between environment, economics and people in finding solutions to the many natural resource issues facing our world.
We live in a most exciting world and are faced with complex resource management issues central to Australia and the world’s future such as water management, climate change, persistent poverty in the world, economic globalisation, environmental degradation, and social and political conflict. This new field of study will introduce you to the need in industry
for integrating natural resource science with economics and people/social issues in finding sustainable solutions to the complex problems facing our world.
There are many facets to integrated resource management, varying from natural systems to economic systems and people’s interactions with all these. Careers in Integrated Resource Management UQ prepares its students for a wide variety of rewarding careers in integrated resourcemanagement in Australia and overseas in areas such as:
- natural resource economics
- environmental tourism development
- mining rehabilitation
- regional development
- overseas consultancies
- revitalisation of rural and regional communities
- water management
- globalisation of products and services
- bio-security management of natural resources
- indigenous community development
- social and economic impacts of climate change
- environmental management
- community facilitators
- environmental economists
- systems research and application, and
- socio-economic issues in tropical forestry.
Program outline
This is an exciting new field of study addressing a world-wide demand for people with the understanding and skills to manage natural resources (land, water, forests, minerals, marine resources, biodiversity) in an integrated and holisticmanner. Many current issues involve conflicts between the productive use and conservation of natural resources.
- How much water should be used for irrigated agriculture and how much should be conserved in-stream to maintain healthy waterways?
- How much forest should be used for timber production and how much should be protected in wilderness reserves?
- How much development and tourism can we allow in our coastal zone while safeguarding unique natural resources such as the Great Barrier Reef?
- How will our lives change with global warming?
These are complex questions involving many competing interests and values. However, decisions have to be made urgently. Who makes these decisions and on what basis? How can we improve our decision-making to achieve more sustainable outcomes, drawing on and integrating the knowledge and experience of all those affected? Such issues are central to Australia’s future and are even more pressing in the international context of population growth, persistent poverty, economic globalisation, environmental degradation, and social and political conflict.The Integrated Resource Management extended major introduces you to the need in industry for integrating natural resource science with economics and people/social issues in finding solutions to the complex problems facing our world.
You will gain basic knowledge and skills on how natural resources, economics and people issues are integrated and how to deal with the complexities involved in finding solutions to the many problems facing our world.
Program highlights
- Choice of directing your electives to specific sectors of resource management in which you are most interested in
- Asia-Pacific Tropical Systems and Extension Overseas tour
- North Queensland Natural Resource Management tour, and
- Acquiring skills for integrating environment, with social and economic considerations – an area in high demand by employers.
Dual program opportunities
Dual programs enable you to study two complete programs at the same time, significantly reducing the time it would take to complete two programs one after the other. Dual programs available for the Bachelor of Applied Science (Integrated Resource Management) include:
- Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Applied Science – St Lucia, and
- Bachelor of Social Science/Bachelor of Applied Science – St Lucia.
Professional memberships
Depending on the major completed, graduates of the Bachelor of Applied Science (Integrated Resource Management) may be eligible for membership of societies such as:
- The Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology
- The Australian Rangeland Society
- The Environment Institute of Australia
- The Royal Australian Institute of Parks and Recreation, and
- Australian Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
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