Population growth and human lifestyle are increasingly putting pressure on the earth's natural resources, with many activities being far from sustainable.
Waste production and waste management are key issues to policy makers and advisors .
A major influence on future planning is climate change, which may impact on several of our natural resources, particularly water.
Alternative, more careful approaches to managing resources are therefore necessary.
This module focuses on three key areas, sustainable waste management, water conservation and energy conservation. In detail it investigates how waste can be minimised and utilised for secondary value.
Also how water and energy use can be better managed to enable conservation of these resources for future generations. It includes study of the waste hierarchy and its implementation, energy saving and renewable energy.
The approach will be wide-ranging but there will be a special emphasis on agricultural and rural examples with environmental implications.