Environmental Monitoring and Resource Assessment
Environment
A course by
Lincoln University
Core skills this course teaches
Understand New Zealand's statutory framework for resource management
Describe how Aotearoa-New Zealand’s statutory framework manages natural resources and mandates their assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
Apply best practice in monitoring and assessment
Apply best practice principles of environmental monitoring and resource assessment to real-world scenarios.
Critically assess challenges and limitations
What You're Signing Up For
This course provides an introduction to environmental monitoring for effective resource management. Students learn about New Zealand’s statutory framework for natural resource management and monitoring, principles and best practices of environmental monitoring and resource assessment, understanding environmental data, designing and collecting environmental data, and critically assessing monitoring practices in real-world scenarios.
Course Content
- Aotearoa-New Zealand’s statutory framework for managing natural resources
- Mandated assessment, monitoring and reporting of resources
- Principles and best practices of environmental monitoring
- Resource assessment techniques
- Challenges and limitations of resource assessment and technologies
- Fundamental ecological and environmental quality processes and parameters
- Design and collection of environmental data
- Use of environmental data and tools for management
- Critical perspectives on environmental monitoring theory and practice
What you need to know first
A minimum of 75 credit points from any level 100, 200, or 300 course
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Environmental Services
Resource Management
Future employment opportunities might be
Environmental monitoring roles
Resource assessment specialist
Environmental consultancy support