Unit of Study ENVR6009 Supporting Change in Regenerative Systems (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Science and Engineering
Placement

No

Unit description

This unit covers the adoption and adaptation of new and alternate practices in agricultural and privately managed land systems; with a focus to deliver sustainable and regenerative outcomes. This is done by exploring the social, economic, and environmental drivers and barriers to adoption as well as looking at the interventions and innovations themselves. The content of this unit operates at both the broadscale (top-down) and individual landholding (bottom-up) levels, and should be useful to those interested in natural resource management, landholder engagement, and extension services.

Unit content

Working with communities: foundational concepts, ethics and relationships
Understanding farm context: landscapes and industry
Understanding your landholder: personal, social, economic and cultural factors
Working with your landholder: co-innovation for identifying issues and solutions
Demonstrating success in regenerative agriculture: assessing, refining and building on success
Policy considerations for implementing regenerative change

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Lismore	Term4	Term4
Online	Term4	Term4

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Analyse the process of landholder and resource management decision making and identify the drivers and barriers of adoption

Integrate and apply transdisciplinary knowledge to inform policy and practice in agricultural systems and private landholdings for sustainable and regenerative outcomes

Evaluate the role of research, ethics, and communication channels in implementing change

Demonstrate presentation and discussion skills as relevant to natural resource managers and extension providers

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hr (6 weeks)

Tutorial 2 hrs (6 weeks)

Assessment
Case study	20%
Project	50%
Literature review	30%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hr (6 weeks)

Tutorial 2 hrs (6 weeks)

Assessment
Case study	20%
Project	50%
Literature review	30%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Resources/Equipment

Online students must have a working speaker, camera and microphone in order to be able to participate in the online tutorials.
There is a list of prescribed (required) and optional readings available for this unit in MyReadings available on the MySCU site. A textbook is not required.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

Fee information

Domestic

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