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Master of Urban Planning and Environment

Build the specialist knowledge necessary to succeed in a career that creates more interesting and sustainable places for people to live.

Combining studies in urban planning and the built environment, with the social, economic and political environment, the Master of Urban Planning and Environment aims to create an efficient, interesting, practical, healthy and sustainable world.

You will develop skills in critical analysis and draw from diverse sources to engage in professionally relevant projects, conduct research and promote effective policy outcomes.

You'll have the opportunity to specialise in urban planning and environmental policy and management.

The urban planning stream explores areas such as:

• Planning and environmental law
• Strategic and social planning
• Integrated transport planning
• Public policy development
• Urban design

The environmental policy and management stream allows you to specialise in areas including:

• Strategies of sustainability
• Environmental policy and theory
• Energy and natural resource management
• Corporate environmental planning

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History of Planning and Environmentalism

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This course provides an introduction to the origin and evolution of planning and environmental thought and its implementation through the growth and development of towns and cities. In so doing, it aims to give you an understanding of how planning and environmentalism originated and developed overtime, and how they have influenced cities and regions.

The history of planning is one of grand ideas, idealism, institutionalism and activism. It also reflects wider social movements, utopian ideals, pragmatic reform, beneficial legacies and great mistakes.

You will explore the origins and implications of the most significant ideas in the history of planning, some key developments in environmentalism, and provide a good understanding of the development of cities and urban settlement.

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Strategies for Sustainability

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The principles of Sustainable Development provide a direction that has been supported internationally, by all levels of Australian government, and by sections of private business. However, changes in society to follow this direction, or to rectify many other environmental problems (such as biodiversity loss and climate change), have been slow developing.

This course will assess what is meant by Sustainable Development, and will examine the processes by which social change has been introduced in a range of situations.

The course will focus on the strategies to increase the priority given to environmental issues in government, the workplace, community and in the home.

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Managing Contemporary Urban Environments

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This course will examine some of the key strategic planning issues for cities and their surrounding environments in the context of international practice and thought.

The course is designed to provide an understanding of strategic land use planning and its relationship to environmental concerns in cities in Victoria and internationally.

The course will examine issues in environmental, economic, and social contexts, and relates planning to governance and political frameworks by analysing decision making processes and the reasons for decisions.

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Economics of Spatial Decision Making

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Increasingly, governments in recent decades have been pre-occupied with the wellbeing of their economies, as they struggle to either maintain or restore levels of economic prosperity.

In this course you will explore how urban planners and environmental managers have been increasingly required to employ economics and a select number of economic tools to assess the potential impact of planning and environmental management decisions upon a city and its broader regional economy.

You will explore this facet of spatial public policy analysis, as well as investigate how economics is being used as a tool to make governance decisions about our urban and natural environments.

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Natural Resource Management

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This course introduces key theories and concepts that will help you to interpret and engage with current issues and debates around the management of natural resources.

To achieve this you will initially explore how certain social constructs, such as property rights, valuing environments and participatory approaches, affect how our resources are managed.

This is followed by an exploration of some basic ecological and physical principles that are critical to understanding current natural resource issues – both within Australia and around the world.

This social and ecological/physical knowledge is then applied to an exploration of how different natural resources (e.g. water, organisms and minerals) are managed (including through policy and legislation) and how certain industries (e.g. forestry, mining and fisheries) are performing.

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Research Strategies – Social Sciences

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In this course you will develop research skills to enable you to design a substantial piece of research in the humanities and social sciences, such as a Masters Capstone Research Project or Masters Minor Thesis.

The course will also develop your knowledge of a wide range of practical, conceptual and methodological issues associated with social research, to enable you to more effectively use and analyse others’ research and to manage and commission research projects undertaken by others.

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Statutory Plan and Environment

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The purpose of this course is to provide you with an understanding of the legislation governing the use and development of land in Victoria, and its application to regulate land use and development. You will explore statutory planning as an important element of the activity or process planning, and its broader context.

In this course you will be introduced to the intent and operation of planning and environmental legislation, including planning schemes in Victoria. Understanding how legislation operates, particularly the application of environmental and land use and development laws, is an essential body of knowledge to prepare you for work as a planner or in environmental management.

The course develops planning and environmental management skills and techniques through the application of legislative provisions and processes to land use, and development proposals that impact on people, the social and economic framework and, particularly, the environment.

You will explore statutory planning as an important element of the activity or process of planning, and its broader context.

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Urban Planning and Environment Project

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In this capstone course you will be given the opportunity to synthetise all the things you have learnt in this program through a project based piece of individual research.

Students will be expected to demonstrate that they have mastered the appropriate theories and skills of their chosen area of career development – urban or regional planning, environmental policy making, environment management or environmental planning – through a project.

Throughout the course, you will reflect on your knowledge and technical skills, in order to develop your insights as a future professional in a chosen field.

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City Building and Urban Design Process

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The course emphasises the development of key urban design skills of value to urban planners, while critically reflecting on urban design as it is practised.

A framework for understanding, critiquing and undertaking urban design is presented as a basis for the course. Within this framework, a range of urban design skills of significance to urban planners are developed.

An integrated program of lectures, tutorial workshops, individual fieldwork, and some team work provides the theoretical and practical basis for developing urban design skills and understandings.

Students will be encouraged to reflect critically upon the skills they are developing and the manner in which planning interconnects with urban design, using theoretical and practical understandings.

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Coastal and Catchment Management

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This course provides you with an introduction to coastal and catchment management.

It provides a framework for identifying and analysing the major environmental, social, economic, cultural and land-use changes impacting coastal and catchment areas.

You will also examine relevant legislation that applies to coastal and catchment environments. You will do this by identifying relevant legislation links with the planning and environmental system along with the operation of planning schemes and local government planning, at both strategic and statutory planning levels.

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Ecosystems and Human Impact

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Evidence of rapidly changing climates, diminishing surface and groundwater resources, and a catastrophic loss of global biodiversity illustrates the critical need to better manage human impacts on Earth's ecosystems.

This course explores the impact of humans on the environment, linking patterns of natural ecosystems to human ecosystems, their functions, inter-relationships, problems and potential solutions.

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Conflict Resolution and Mediation

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Mediation has gained increased importance in the past two decades due to congestion in the courts and tribunals, delays in litigation and rising legal costs.

In Australia, since the mid-1990s, government policies at both the state and federal level have endorsed and actively encouraged the use of mediation and other conciliatory approaches in preference to litigation.

This course will familiarise you with theories, concepts and skills for managing conflict and resolving disputes.

Through reading, related group and individual exercises (including problem-solving tasks, case studies and simulations), and a series of linked assessment tasks, you will develop analytical and practical skills in facilitation, conciliation, negotiation, mediation and arbitration.

Activities are structured to facilitate the integration of theory and practice skills. This involves practising skills in class and giving and receiving feedback from staff and fellow students.

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Corporate Environmental Planning and Management

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This course examines corporate responsibility and accountability in the context of companies' environmental impacts and outcomes. It examines the variety of drivers for corporate accountability and the role of corporations in relation to the environment.

The course explores the nature and effectiveness of corporate responses to environmental responsibility and the role of strategic planning in achieving outcomes.

The course will analyse selected case studies, combined with visiting speakers from industry and government to examine specific approaches by government corporations.

The role of NGOs, education and individual/collective action will also be explored to assess what future strategies might be most effective.

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Environment and Planning Work Placement

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In this course you will undertake a work-based placement. The integration of work-based learning and academic placement, commonly referred to as Work Integrated Learning (WIL), will allow you to solve authentic industry problems and address real issues faced in organisations.

The course will also enable you to further understand "professionalism" in an environment or planning setting.

You will further reflect on the nature of professionalism and ethics in this course, and have opportunities to apply knowledge you have acquired in the work-based setting.

You will be able to develop and explore particular interests and skills in your placement, which will provide a basis for developing a professional network with colleagues and position you favourably for future employment opportunities.

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Environmental Management – EIA and EMS

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The focus of the course will be Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Management Systems as they encompass the main elements of current approaches to environmental management and epitomise the issues related to environmental management.

The contexts of these tools will be covered, as will their specific elements and applications, to provide a basis for a critical analysis of the political and technical applications of environmental management tools.

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