Environmental Management and Sustainability at Murdoch University

Course Description

With growing populations globally, managing environments to ensure sustainable use of resources and conservation of biodiversity is more important than ever. Launch your career in environmental management with a local, national and international focus.

Understand how to critically analyse issues, solve problems, and communicate effectively with others as you tackle current and future environmental issues and develop sustainable solutions. With practical experience throughout the course, including both on campus and in field trips, you’ll develop knowledge in environmental restoration and management, approaches to sustainability, and technical skills in statistics and mapping technology.

Graduate with a scientific knowledge-base, combined with hands-on experience in real-world issues, giving you an edge in future employment.

7 reasons to study Environmental Management and Sustainability at Murdoch

• Get practical experience right here on campus – Murdoch’s campus includes two conservation category wetlands and a banksia woodland that you will have access to throughout your course.
• Gain an understanding of how both legal and policy frameworks are integral to environmental management.
• Get hands-on experience with turtles, quendas, endangered Carnaby’s and other black cockatoos on campus, living in a sustainable ‘green development’ landscape.
• Learn how to work in interdisciplinary teams to address the local, regional and international sustainability issues that matter to you.
• Use spatial planning technology to reconcile human use and native habitat in protected areas.
• Develop practical restoration plans in a global biodiversity hotspot and monitor the recovery of ecosystems affected by development.
• Volunteer with external organisations or get involved in restoration projects and research on campus.

What you’ll learn

Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals. Here are some of the things you’ll learn:

• how to manage social and environmental values of protected areas, such as national parks
• how legislation and policy underpin conservation and natural resource management
• effective, science-based environmental restoration techniques
• systems thinking skills for global and regional sustainability
• an ecological knowledge base to inform your management actions.

You can also customise your course with minors in Nature-based Tourism, Ecosystem Management, Environmental Issues, Resource Management, Waste and Water Management, and more.

Your future career

Pursue a career in the fields of air and water quality, biodiversity and ecosystem restoration, climate change adaptation and mitigation, ecotourism, education, forestry, fisheries and wildlife, green/alternative energy, mining rehabilitation, natural resource management, parks management, policy formation, sustainability, urban planning or waste management.

Careers could include:

• Environmental Consultant
• Mining Rehabilitation Officer
• Natural Resource Manager
• Parks and Wildlife Officer
• Urban and Regional Planner.