Environmental Management & Ethics

Environmental Management & Ethics

Instructors: Steffen Foss Hansen

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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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.

The environmental ethical dilemmas that we face a immense. In this module, we will introduce you to our course on Environmental Management & Ethics.

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1 video1 assignment1 discussion prompt

In this module, we will introduce you to environmental ethics in general and three different kinds of environmental ethics in specific.

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4 videos1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

4 videos Total 30 minutes

Introduction to Environmental Ethics 7 minutes
Land ethics 7 minutes
Deep ecology 8 minutes
Ecofeminism 7 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Environmental ethics 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Environmental ethical aspects of your chosen environmental dilemma 120 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Examples of Deep Ecology 10 minutes

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.

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1 video1 assignment

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.

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6 videos3 assignments1 peer review

6 videos Total 80 minutes

DPSIR 10 minutes
DPSIR- Example 9 minutes
Cost-benefit analysis 19 minutes
Stakeholder analysis 12 minutes
Stakeholder analysis - Example 10 minutes
Technology assessment 21 minutes

3 assignments Total 90 minutes

Cost-benefit analysis 30 minutes
Stakeholder analysis 30 minutes
Technology assessment 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

DPSIR on your chosen Environmental ethical dilemma 120 minutes

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.

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5 videos2 assignments1 discussion prompt

5 videos Total 72 minutes

Command and control regulation 13 minutes
Economic incentives 5 minutes
Voluntary Environmental Programmes 15 minutes
The Precautionary Principle 28 minutes
Other environmental principles 12 minutes

2 assignments Total 60 minutes

Environmental regulation 30 minutes
Environmental principles 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Disadvantages of Economic incentives 10 minutes

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.

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1 peer review

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Steffen Foss Hansen

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

2 Courses 102,336 learners

Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

1 Course 26,511 learners

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Reviewed on May 31, 2020

Being a sustainability consultant it was important for me to understand the ethical principles to serve better solution. This course helped me gained that clarity.

Reviewed on Jan 13, 2018

Update knowledge of Environmental management and ethics that i am learning from this course! Nicely designed.

Reviewed on May 18, 2020

i think when it comes to researching outside the course content should be a voluntary activity. one of the week the entire time was dedicated to asking students to do do self research

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