CEME 3007 - Integrated Environment Planning and Impact Assessment

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2022

The growing local and global reach of the impacts of human development on the natural environment necessitate the use of an integrated systems approach towards understanding, modelling and decision making in human-environmental systems. The inter-connectedness of these systems means that traditional modelling paradigms need to be expanded to account for the array of key socio-techno-ecological processes. For environmental engineers working at the interface between human development and the natural environment, spatial, dynamic and integrated assessment modelling techniques, coupled with scenario-based strategies to deal with deep uncertainty, are becoming increasingly important approaches. This course will focus on a systems approach to conceptualising human-environmental systems? problems, and adopt spatio-dynamic modelling and deep uncertainty framing tools and for the purpose of planning and decision-making.

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Course Details

Course Code	CEME 3007
Course	Integrated Environment Planning and Impact Assessment
Coordinating Unit	School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Eng
Term	Semester 2
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	N

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Dr Aaron Zecchin

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Learning Outcomes

Course Learning Outcomes

The learning objectives for this course are to:
1) Recognise and explain the role of systems thinking and systems approaches in tackling wicked problems.
2) Identify, apply and compare qualitative systems mapping techniques to complex human-environmental systems (e.g. influence diagrams, causal loop diagrams, stock and flow diagrams).
3) Develop quantitative System Dynamics models for environmental and renewable energy systems.
4) Design structured computational studies to investigate and analyse environmental and renewable energy systems subject to deep uncertainty.
5) Prepare engineering reports based on results from computational studies of environmental and renewable energy systems.

University Graduate Attributes

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Learning Resources

Required Resources

The course uses a range of textbooks and papers, where key excerpts will be made available on MyUni. Several assignments will require further research, and students should make use of the University of Adelaide library and resources (e.g. databases) therein

Recommended Resources

Recommended resource lists will be made avaliable on MyUni.

Online Learning

This course will make extensive use of digital technology. All course material will be made available through the MyUni portal, including recorded lectures, assignments, and other relevant material. Moveover, this system will be used for all important course announcements.
Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching Modes

The course will be delivered through mulitple modes and activites. All information and resources will be available through MyUni.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

In line with University guidelines, it is expected that the average student should spend 12 hours per week on this course. In addition to the lectures (up to 2 hours per week) and the face-to-face sessions (up to 2 hours per week), students are expected to spend the additional remaining time allocation reviewing lecture material, reading course readings, working on assignments, and working on the modelling exercises and projects.

Learning Activities Summary

This course will involve up to two hours of online lectures each week, combined with either a two hour workshop or computing practical session each week.

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Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

This course will involve written response assignments, model development and simulation assignments, and a major group project.

Assessment Detail

Details of all assessments will be made avaliable through MyUni.

Submission

All submissions will be electronic and through MyUni.

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Final results for this course will be made available through Access Adelaide.

Student Feedback

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