Sustainable Governance provides the platform for 21st century innovation. Measuring sustainable governance is a key challenge for communities at all levels of government: global, national and local. This unit will examine the principles for assessing sustainable governance and the indicators that can allow communities to measure sustainable governance against goals and objectives. The unit will draw on the emerging international literature in sustainability assessment and measurement principles and draw examples from Europe, USA and Canada to provide a platform for considering the measurement of sustainable governance at a local level. This unit will be a useful tool kit for students interested in careers in the public and private sectors, planning, social and environmental management, social inclusion, local government and international development (NGOs and global institutions).
WEIGHT: 12.5%
ASSESSMENT: 3,000 word report (50%); 1,000 word preliminary report proposal (20%); 2hr end-of-year exam (30%)
TEACHING PATTERN: 2 hr lecture weekly, 1 hr workshop fortnightly; Dist ed: web-based delivery of 13 weeks of lectures, plus 3 campus-based (at Hobart and Burnie) workshops tba
FLEXIBLE & ONLINE STUDY OPTIONS Note: Class attendance may still be required
Fully online - H,I,L,N,W This unit is taught entirely online
Resource supported teaching & learning - H,I,L,N,W Additional resources are provided for your optional use; e.g. audio taped lectures
About Flexible Study Options
Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.
Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle, P Beauty Point. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Y Hong Kong.
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Fully online - H,I,L,N,W