Course overview

This intensive course explores the synergies between natural resources, enterprise development and Indigenous livelihoods. Participants attend a 5-day intensive based in Darwin and one night/two days of field trips that will take place in Kakadu National Park (or alternative location in outer Darwin). The course links theory and applied topics, through a combination of lectures, discussions and field-based observation.

Date: 1-5 September, 2025, plus online study before and after the intensive for enrolled students.
Duration: 5 days with 2 full-day / overnight field trip
Numbers: 20 places available

Themes covered:

• Indigenous people and their resources
• Enterprise development theory and sustainable livelihood frameworks
• Social, cultural, environmental, policy, and economic factors in enterprise development and commercial use of natural resources
• Governance, business models and success factors
• Natural resource based enterprise case studies - including plant and animal products, land and sea management, carbon economy and marine enterprises

Who should attend

This intensive is available as an elective for Masters, third year students and professional participants with some tertiary education experience (see flyer for costs). This includes practitioners working with local, Territory, state and national governments, NGOs and community groups in natural resource management or higher degree by research candidates seeking professional development opportunity.

More information

Click here for a flyer with more information about course topics, field trip and enrolment costs and important dates.

For more information contact the Unit Coordinator:

Professor Natasha Stacey
Environment Discipline, Faculty of Science and Technology
T. (08) 8946 6268
E: natasha.stacey@cdu.edu.au.