BSc Environmental Management

The unit aims to:

• provide students with practical experience in undertaking assessment and management of an environmental issue
• introduce students to the roles of the range of various practitioners and stakeholders involved in managing the environment
• Enable students to demonstrate the full range of their knowledge relevant to an environmental management issue set within an existing project.
• enable students to utilise fully the self-learning capabilities learnt during their programme and to demonstrate them in a student-led group project

• Design and implement the required stages of environmental management projects
• Understand current trends in environmental management

• Grasp environmental management and assessment concepts
• Evaluate information to make decisions

• Design and implement a methodology for data collection and analysis to address a brief
• Undertake desk-studies, e.g. review of academic literature, policy and guidance
• Conduct site analyses
• Produce reports that are written and presented to a professional standard
• Analyse and synthesise various forms of data

• Work in groups
• Produce written reports
• Deliver professional standard presentations

Alexander, M. (2007) Management Planning for Nature Conservation.  Springer, London.

Blakesley, D and Buckley, GP. 2010. Woodland creation for wildlife and people in a changing climate: principles and practice. Pisces Publications, Newbury.

Institute of Environmental Assessment (1995) Guidelines for baseline ecological assessment. Institute of Environmental Assessment. E & F Spon, an Imprint of Chapman & Hall, London.

JNCC (2010) Handbook for Phase 1 Habitat Survey: a technique for environmental audit. Available at: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-2468

Tait, J., Lane, A. and Carr, S. (1988) Practical Conservation: Site Assessment and Management Planning, Hodder and Stoughton, London.

Tyldesley, D. (1999) Planning for Biodiversity: Good Practice Guide Royal Town Planning Institute, London.