Environmental restoration planner career

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Environmental restoration planners oversee the implementation of restoration projects. They use scientific data to develop strategies for restoration, monitoring and management.

Environmental restoration planners oversee the implementation of restoration projects. They use scientific data to develop strategies for restoration, monitoring and management.

What would you do as an Environmental restoration planner?

Environmental restoration planners

  • usually work regular business hours
  • usually work in offices, laboratories and outdoors and may travel locally or nationally
  • need to be logical, methodical and identify and solve problems

Tasks

  • plan environmental conservation and restoration projects
  • inspect condition of natural enviroments
  • collect and analyse environmental data and samples
  • develop plans to manage natural and renewable resources
  • advise about environmental management and conservation
  • supervise and train scientific workers
  • share research results
  • make sure people follow environmental law

How can you become an Environmental restoration planner?

You need a qualification to become an environmental restoration planner and experience may be useful.

You need

  • a bachelor's degree in urban design and regional planning, environmental sustainability, environmental science or similar area

You may need

  • experience in similar work
  • a Master of Resource and Environmental Planning or similar
  • to join a professional organisation

If you're in school

You need University Entrance to do the study or training for this job.

Studying this at the University of Waikato

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Our Bachelor of Environmental Planning, accredited by the New Zealand Planning Institute, gives you the planning skills to lead restoration projects. For a stronger ecology focus, you can study an Ecology and Biodiversity major in our Bachelor of Science instead. Like all our undergraduate degrees, both include work-integrated learning.

To specialise further, you can continue with our Master of Environmental Planning.

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Scholarships

A range of scholarships are available to help with the cost of studying at Waikato. Options are available across a wide range of subjects and study levels, including scholarships for new students, current students and specific areas of study.

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