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RSNR502 Freshwaters: Ecology and Management

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Online level Level D - Comp/internet essential
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam November
Pre-requisites candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites
Restrictions EM454/554; ENVE 421/521; RSNR402
Notes None
Combined Units RSNR402 - Freshwaters: Ecology and Management
Coordinator(s) Darren Ryder (dryder2@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit commences with a description of the distribution, hydrology, chemistry, and ecology of freshwaters with an emphasis on Australia and its water resources. Technologies and their impacts on the freshwater ecosystem are reviewed in detail with a focus on environmental allocations, water use for irrigation and domestic supply, technologies for water re-use and re-cycling, desalination, agricultural effluent re-use and groundwater exploitation, and their likely impacts. Chemical and bio-assessment methods (including river health assessments) for detecting impacts are demonstrated before the unit concludes with a holistic treatment of the trade-offs and management of social, economic, ecological and political issues in water resource management in Australia and overseas.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory

Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Australian Freshwater Ecology: Processes and Management
ISBN: 9781875553051
Boulton, A. and Brock, M., Gleneagles Publishing 1st ed. 1999
Note: Available from Ecosystem Management Office, UNE
Recommended Material
Optional

Text(s):

Note: Reference material is held in the University Library - purchase is optional

Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications
ISBN: 9780122191350
Dodds, W.K., Academic Press
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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