À propos de ce cours : 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.
Créé par : Université technique du Danemark (DTU)
Enseigné par : Steffen Foss Hansen, Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Engineering
Enseigné par : Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen, PhD student
Environmental Engineering
| Langue | English |
| Comment réussir | Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours. |
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Programme de cours
SEMAINE 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 vidéo
- Discussion Prompt: Top 5 Environmental ethical challenges of today
Noté: Introduction to Environmetal Management & Ethics
SEMAINE 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 vidéos
- Vidéo: Land ethics
- Vidéo: Deep ecology
- Discussion Prompt: Examples of Deep Ecology
- Vidéo: Ecofeminism
Noté: Environmental ethics
Noté: Environmental ethical aspects of your chosen environmental dilemma
SEMAINE 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 vidéo
Noté: Environmental management of tame and wicked problems
SEMAINE 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 vidéos
- Vidéo: DPSIR- Example
- Vidéo: Cost-benefit analysis
- Vidéo: Stakeholder analysis
- Vidéo: Stakeholder analysis - Example
- Vidéo: Technology assessment
Noté: DPSIR on your chosen Environmental ethical dilemma
Noté: Cost-benefit analysis
Noté: Stakeholder analysis
Noté: Technology assessment
SEMAINE 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 vidéos
- Vidéo: Economic incentives
- Discussion Prompt: Disadvantages of Economic incentives
- Vidéo: Voluntary Environmental Programmes
- Vidéo: The Precautionary Principle
- Vidéo: Other environmental principles
Noté: Environmental regulation
Noté: Environmental principles
SEMAINE 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.
Noté: Develop final recommendations
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Université technique du Danemark (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.
Notation et examens
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.