Your JCU Environmental Practice curriculum builds on JCU's internationally-acclaimed environmental science reputation and experience. It will make you even more employable. You'll study: Urban design, combining urban planning, urbanization issues and urban landscapes with a sustainable "design thinking" approach Corporate environmental management, combining business literacy and corporate sustainability with environmental skills Biodiversity Assessment and management teaches skills for assessment and management of all living species, on land and in the water Coastal and Marine Management looks at the interaction of people and communities at the coastal fringe and on the oceans and marine habitats Land and Water Management combines physical geosciences and environmental impacts on land, wetlands, river catchments and below the surface Course highlights In our increasingly populated world, your JCU Environmental Practice degree will help you discover answers to more and more complicated environmental problems. You will learn how to manage the interactions between people and the environment to find solutions to pressing environmental problems. This course will provide you with a broad understanding of the operative and management interactions between the biological, physical, social, economic and political spheres impacting on current environmental issues. Choose from 5 majors: Biodiversity Assessment and Management Corporate Environmental Management Urban Environments and Landscape Design Coastal and Marine Management Land and Water Management Career opportunities You'll have a unique set of skills when you graduate with a JCU Environmental Practice degree. Your qualifications will be sought by government departments, mining corporations, environmental consultants, renewable energy industries, tourism businesses, heritage groups, local governments, and non-government organisations, or you may establish your own company to work with stakeholders and clients. As well as being able to manage relationships with stakeholders with diverse interests, you'll have the business skills and environmental knowledge required by organisations that need leaders to: Manage corporate environmental projects that require business literacy with environmental skills, ensuring compliance with environmental laws and better management of how business impacts on the environment Manage the provision of fresh water and other essentials for rapidly growing cities Conduct Environmental Site Assessments in residential, commercial and industrial properties Conduct historical and regulatory research Lead contaminated site inspections Manage remediation activities Prepare and review reports and budgets Manage teams of skilled and unskilled workers Design sustainable and green urban places