Acerca de este curso: Decision-makers often turn to scientists and engineers to assist them to navigate through complex environmental, health and societal challenges pervaded by systemic uncertainty, ambiguity and ethical implications. This course prepares you to meet the requests and demands of current and future decision-makers and in this course, you will analyze ethical challenges associated with environmental dilemmas and apply different decision making tools relevant to environmental management and regulation.
Creada por: Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Enseñado por: Steffen Foss Hansen, Associate Professor
Department of Environmental EngineeringEnseñado por: Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen, PhD student
Environmental Engineering
| Idioma | Inglés (English) |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
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Programa
SEMANA 1
Welcome and introduction
The environmental ethical dilemmas that we face a immense. In this module, we will introduce you to our course on Environmental Management & Ethics.
1 video
- Discussion Prompt: Top 5 Environmental ethical challenges of today
Calificado: Introduction to Environmetal Management & Ethics
SEMANA 2
Environmental ethics
In this module, we will introduce you to environmental ethics in general and three different kinds of environmental ethics in specific.
4 videos
- Vídeo: Land ethics
- Vídeo: Deep ecology
- Discussion Prompt: Examples of Deep Ecology
- Vídeo: Ecofeminism
Calificado: Environmental ethics
Calificado: Environmental ethical aspects of your chosen environmental dilemma
SEMANA 3
Environmental management of wicked problems
In the past, environmental problems were local and we could use our senses to detect them. We could see them, smell them and feel them and we could develop uniform solutions to them. They were tame problems. More and more of the environmental dilemmas and problems that we face are not tame. In this module, you will learn about environmental management of wicked problems in contrast to tame problems.
1 video
Calificado: Environmental management of tame and wicked problems
SEMANA 4
Decision-support tools
Tools and methods such as cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, technology assessment often provide support to decision-maker when it making decisions about how to best management the environment and environmental resources. These decision-support tools have different ethical foundations and different set of values embedded in them, which are important to have in mind.
6 videos
- Vídeo: DPSIR- Example
- Vídeo: Cost-benefit analysis
- Vídeo: Stakeholder analysis
- Vídeo: Stakeholder analysis - Example
- Vídeo: Technology assessment
Calificado: DPSIR on your chosen Environmental ethical dilemma
Calificado: Cost-benefit analysis
Calificado: Stakeholder analysis
Calificado: Technology assessment
SEMANA 5
Environmental regulation and principles
In this module, we will introduce you to the main different kinds of implementing environmental regulation as well as some of the key environmental principles on which environmental management is based internationally.
5 videos
- Vídeo: Economic incentives
- Discussion Prompt: Disadvantages of Economic incentives
- Vídeo: Voluntary Environmental Programmes
- Vídeo: The Precautionary Principle
- Vídeo: Other environmental principles
Calificado: Environmental regulation
Calificado: Environmental principles
SEMANA 6
Recommendations on your chosen Environmental ethical dilemma
In this module, you will learn-by-doing how hard it can be to develop a set of clear recommendation to solve a given environmental ethical dilemma.
Calificado: Develop final recommendations
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Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
DTU focuses on research in technical and natural sciences that contributes to the development of society. As an industrially orientated university, our goal is to supply high-level international research based on combining theory with constructing models and empirical methods.
Calificaciones y revisiones
Very good! The teachers are very kind and have enough knowledge to pass.
Update knowledge of Environmental management and ethics that i am learning from this course! Nicely designed.
The idea behind ethics is great and impressive, needs to learn by all development activists.
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The course will add a lot of value to my career and judgement in regards to Environmental matters. I feel much confident and capable to discuss ethics, principles and foundations of environmental sciences. The facilitators are incredibly amazing.