Environmental Management & Ethics

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

About this Course

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.

100% online course

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Approx. 18 hours to complete

Suggested: 3 hours/week

English

Subtitles: English

100% online course

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Approx. 18 hours to complete

Suggested: 3 hours/week

English

Subtitles: English

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

1

Section

23 minutes to complete

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 min), 1 quiz

1 videos

Introduction to Environmental Management & Ethics12m

1 practice exercises

Introduction to Environmetal Management & Ethics6m

2

Section

3 hours to complete

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 min), 2 quizzes

4 videos

Introduction to Environmental Ethics6m

Land ethics7m

Deep ecology8m

Ecofeminism7m

1 practice exercises

Environmental ethics20m

3

Section

1 hour to complete

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 min), 1 quiz

1 videos

Environmental management of tame and wicked problems10m

1 practice exercises

Environmental management of tame and wicked problems20m

4

Section

4 hours to complete

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 min), 4 quizzes

6 videos

DPSIR9m

DPSIR- Example8m

Cost-benefit analysis18m

Stakeholder analysis12m

Stakeholder analysis - Example9m

Technology assessment20m

3 practice exercises

Cost-benefit analysis12m

Stakeholder analysis12m

Technology assessment12m

5

Section

2 hours to complete

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 min), 2 quizzes

5 videos

Command and control regulation12m

Economic incentives5m

Voluntary Environmental Programmes15m

The Precautionary Principle28m

Other environmental principles11m

2 practice exercises

Environmental regulation20m

Environmental principles20m

6

Section

2 hours to complete

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

Instructors

Steffen Foss Hansen

Associate Professor

Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen

PhD student

About 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....

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Environmental Management & Ethics