#NA-04-19 Environmental Justice
About Course
UEA (University of East Anglia)Description
Understand environmental injustices
This online course will help you understand how injustice is a common feature of many environmental problems.
● Can we manage tropical forests to increase timber revenues and carbon stocks, while ensuring that the people who live in them can fulfil their own subsistence needs and vision of a healthy ecosystem?
● How can protected areas strike the right balance between contemporary global interests in species conservation, local interests, the needs of future generations and rights of nature?
We’ll show that sustainable environmental management requires attention to justice – that we need to strike the right balance between the needs, interests, rights and aspirations of various stakeholders today, and those of both nature and future generations.
Who will you learn with?
I am a social scientist who works on issues of conservation and development and environmental justice. My research is mainly in Sub Saharan Africa
Who developed the course?
The University of East Anglia is an internationally renowned university providing top quality academic, social and cultural facilities to over 15,000 students from over 100 countries around the globe.
What Will I Learn?
- Explain the dimensions of environmental justice
- Evaluate different ideas of justice
- Investigate local environmental justice struggles
- Apply an environmental justice framing to global challenges
- Explore practical techniques to empower marginalised communities
Topics for this course
Introducing the course
WELCOME ABOARD! VIDEO (01:55)00:01:55
MEET THE TEAM ARTICLE
CONNECT WITH UEA ARTICLE
INTRODUCE YOURSELF DISCUSSION
INTRODUCTION VIDEO (02:03)00:02:03
Draft Lesson
Why environmental justice?
Justice as multi-dimensional
Principles of justice
Reflections
In this course, we learn that sustainable environmental management requires a focus on justice -- we need to strike the right balance between the needs, interests, rights and aspirations of today's diverse stakeholders and those of nature and future generations. We should reflect on our excessive use of the environment.
This course teaches us how protected areas strike the right balance between contemporary global conservation interests, local interests, the needs of future generations and natural rights. This is a lesson well worth learning.
Can we manage tropical forests to increase timber revenues and carbon stocks while ensuring that the people living in tropical forests can meet their survival needs and vision for a healthy ecosystem? This is very important, and this course is well done.
This online course has helped me better understand how injustice is a common feature of many environmental problems. How to deal with such environmental injustice.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for people who are already working on environmental problems or are familiar with environmental issues. It seeks to address environmentalists around the world although a background on international development will be useful.