Study options
The Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law is responsible for teaching four academic units offered within UNE's Graduate Certificate in Environmental Systems, Markets and Climate Change.
The Graduate Certificate is the first level in a program that provides the opportunity for students to progress through a Graduate Diploma to a Masters program. The possibility to qualify for enrolment in a Research Master or PhD exists if a thesis is undertaken in the Masters program.
The program focuses on future leaders and managers of eco-service markets such as carbon and water trading, and environmental sustainability issues such as climate change. This course enables natural resource managers to meet their legal and policy obligations, and to minimise the risks of litigation through interdisciplinary training. The coursework program enables staff from consultancy groups, regional organisations (e.g. Catchment Management Authorities (CMA)), and state and federal agencies to upgrade skills in this emerging and cross-disciplinary field, or facilitate a career change for those with discipline-based qualifications (e.g. teachers, lawyers, accountants).
The four Masters units offered by the AgLaw Centre within this program are:
- Resource Management Risks and Responsibility (LLM627) takes a unique perspective on the application of risk governance frameworks to advancing sustainability. We consider both conventional risk analysis, and a novel approach to evaluation of the risks of policy itself;
- Resource Rules (LLM628), which considers the complex network of public and private rule frameworks that impact on the conservation and exploitation of natural resources. Whilst the course uses the design of compliance programmes as a focus, its underlying goal is to provide frameworks for understanding and designing rules;
- Strategy and Sustainability (LLM629) provides a systems based approach to the design of integrated strategies involving laws, markets, and other mechanisms to shape resource consumption behaviour;
- Catchments, Contracts and Conflicts (LLM630), which considers issues of contract design from within a framework of understanding of transaction systems, and which aims to provide students with skills to design and implement transacting systems.
For more information about these units, please contact the Academic Coordinator, Dr Amanda Kennedy.