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Environmental Management & Ethics

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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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. 
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.

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Approx. 13 hours to complete

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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Persian

Flexible deadlines

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Approx. 13 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Persian

Instructors

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Steffen Foss Hansen

Associate Professor

Department of Environmental Engineering

61,757 Learners

2 Courses

Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen

PhD student

Environmental Engineering

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1 Course

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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.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

1 hour 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 hour to complete

1 video (Total 12 min)

Week

Week 2

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.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 30 min)

Week

Week 3

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 hour to complete

1 video (Total 11 min)

Week

Week 4

5 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.

5 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 80 min)

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TOP REVIEWS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & ETHICS

by EFOct 27, 2020

This course is one of a kind, the instructors did well, please I need a certificate for evidence I completed this course

by BKAug 5, 2022

The course in quiet insightful. The instructors are facinating and the whole course arrangement displace experienced act. Thanks Coursera.

by VMFeb 18, 2021

Was an amazing opportunity as an Environmental Engineer to get more knowledge regarding environment protections, modern approach in this field.

I strongly recommend the course!

by PMAug 11, 2020

its very useful. content was very clear in the environmental management. its helps to learn for my studies.

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