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.
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
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1 video•Total 12 minutes
Introduction to Environmental Management & Ethics•12 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Introduction to Environmetal Management & Ethics•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Top 5 Environmental ethical challenges of today•10 minutes
Environmental ethics
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
In this module, we will introduce you to environmental ethics in general and three different kinds of environmental ethics in specific.
Environmental ethical aspects of your chosen environmental dilemma•120 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Examples of Deep Ecology•10 minutes
Environmental management of wicked problems
Module 3•1 hour to complete
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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
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1 video•Total 11 minutes
Environmental management of tame and wicked problems•11 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Environmental management of tame and wicked problems•30 minutes
Decision-support tools
Module 4•5 hours to complete
Module details
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
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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
Environmental regulation and principles
Module 5•2 hours to complete
Module details
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
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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
Recommendations on your chosen Environmental ethical dilemma
Module 6•2 hours to complete
Module details
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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1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
Develop final recommendations•120 minutes
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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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It is a very useful course for those who are interested in learning Land ethics, Deep ecology, Decision tools, and Environmental regulations & and principals.
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Update knowledge of Environmental management and ethics that i am learning from this course! Nicely designed.
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This course is one of a kind, the instructors did well, please I need a certificate for evidence I completed this course
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