Description:

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 holistic manner. 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. Decisions have to be made urgently in the absence of complete scientific knowledge, with long-term and possibly irreversible consequences. 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 globalization, environmental degradation, and social and political conflict.

The Integrated Resource Management double 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.

You may also decide you want to keep the degree broad-based and therefore choose your courses from a variety of sectors, and maybe start to focus only at postgraduate level. This flexibility is especially of value to students who are interested in making a difference in the exciting world out there, but do not yet know what sector of resource management they would be more interested in. That decision can be made after you have been exposed to the different interesting aspects of resource management.

Fees/How to Apply

http://www.uq.edu.au/study/index.html?page=946

Program List

In PDF Format (page 11)

Dual Degrees

Dual Degrees with BAppSc (IRM)

Dual degree programs are available with:

• Bachelor of Economics

For details about dual degree programs, see http://www.uq.edu.au/myadvisor/dual-programs

QTAC Code

• 704031 for Commonwealth Supported places
• 704036 for full fee places
• (Not listed in the QTAC book)

Prerequisites for Entry

English & Maths A, B or C

Career Opportunities

Careers available to you after graduating include planners, managers, community facilitators, advisors, applied researchers, and policy analysts within and across various resource-based sectors (agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, mining, the marine sector, tourism) working with local communities, catchment management organisations, indigenous groups, government agencies, industry bodies, private consulting firms, and international agencies working in conservation and development.

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‘I’ve been involved in rural development, environmental management and planning projects in Australia, Cambodia,Kiribati, Indonesia (post-tsunami) and India. The current project I’m on is the Seulawah Agam Geothermal Power Project in Aceh Province, Indonesia.’ John Powell	Yelma Fisher works in Regional Tourism Development, Tourism Queensland	‘I was an Environmental chemist for CCI. Then Project Engineer: Coal Quality and Environment with BHPB, now I’m in Blackwater as a Coal Quality Engineer. Once I have done a few years of technical work I plan to move into a more managerial role. ’ Haig Allalemdjian