This course provides education and training for existing and future professionals on the background, principles and practices of tropical environmental management, particularly in the context of wet-dry and semi-arid tropical ecosystems. This externally and internally offered course focuses on developing knowledge and skills necessary to understand the ecology, use of and sustainable management of tropical ecosystems. Specific objectives of this course include providing a program which is flexible and balanced between course work, hands-on training and research and caters to the needs of individual students. The program responds to the changing needs of employers and other stakeholders in northern Australia and elsewhere and flexible delivery caters to a broad range of students with the latest outcomes of research in tropical ecology and management incorporated into teaching materials. Graduates of this course may seek employment in areas of research and environmental management.