Location: Casuarina Campus, Darwin, Northern Territory and Kakadu National Park.

Course overview

This intensive course explores the synergies between natural resource-based enterprise development and Indigenous livelihoods with a focus on the Top End of the Northern Territory. Participants attend a 5-day intensive based in Darwin and overnight/two day field trip in Kakadu National Park. The course links theory and applied topics, through a combination of lectures, discussions and field-based observation.

Themes covered:

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

Who should attend

This unit is available as an elective for master's and third year students. Cross-institutional enrolments from other universities are very welcome. The intensive welcomes professional participants with some tertiary education experience to participate in the 5 day intensive (see 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 the course, field trip, 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.