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.
Environmental Management & Ethics
ofrecido por
Universidad Técnica de Dinamarca (DTU)
Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Semana
123 minutos para completar
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 (Total 12 minutos), 1 quiz
1 ejercicio de práctica
Introduction to Environmetal Management & Ethics6m
Semana
23 horas para completar
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 (Total 30 minutos), 2 quizzes
1 ejercicio de práctica
Environmental ethics20m
Semana
31 hora para completar
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 (Total 11 minutos), 1 quiz
1 ejercicio de práctica
Environmental management of tame and wicked problems20m
Semana
44 horas para completar
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 (Total 80 minutos), 4 quizzes
6 videos
DPSIR9m
DPSIR- Example8m
Cost-benefit analysis18m
Stakeholder analysis12m
Stakeholder analysis - Example9m
Technology assessment20m
3 ejercicios de práctica
Cost-benefit analysis12m
Stakeholder analysis12m
Technology assessment12m
Semana
52 horas para completar
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 (Total 72 minutos), 2 quizzes
5 videos
Economic incentives5m
Voluntary Environmental Programmes15m
The Precautionary Principle28m
Other environmental principles11m
2 ejercicios de práctica
Environmental regulation20m
Environmental principles20m
Semana
62 horas para completar
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.
1 quiz
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Principales revisiones
Good content and well structured. Lecturers are clear and the questions in the exams really make you think and learn the topic to its fullest.
Update knowledge of Environmental management and ethics that i am learning from this course! Nicely designed.
Instructores
Steffen Foss Hansen
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Environmental Engineering
Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen
PhD studentEnvironmental Engineering
Acerca de Universidad Técnica de Dinamarca (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.
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