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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Environmental Challenges: Justice in Natural Resource Management
This online course explored different aspects of justice, and applied these to environmental issues surrounding natural resource management. It introduced Strategic Environmental Assessment and Terms of Reference, which were applied to water management in Nepal.
2 weeks, 5 hours per week
Professor Jon Lovett
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss John Rawls’s principles and theory of justice.
- Explore institutional economics and transaction costs.
- Explain Arrow Impossibility and problems with collective decision making.
- Produce a Terms of Reference for Strategic Environmental Assessment.
Syllabus
- Understand the way that thought experiments can be used to generate fundamental principles.
- Have knowledge of the two principles of justice used in the Theory of Justice.
- Be introduced to the approach of John Rawls, often regarded as the greatest moral philosopher of the 20th Century.
- Understand the difference between economic approaches based on the ‘hidden hand’ of a free market, and institutional economics, in which transaction costs are considered to be important.
- Appreciate the factors that reduce transaction costs.
- Be introduced to Douglass North, who is often regarded as the father of modern institutional economics.
- Understand the practical difficulties of applying the principle of equality to decision-making.
- Be able to perform a simple test to show how collective modes of choice can be logically inconsistent.
- Be introduced to Ken Arrow, who demonstrated the difficulty of rational choice in social welfare.
- Be able to recognise the application of Rawls’ principles of justice to policy.
- Understand the violation of the second principle of justice when applied to saving for future generations.
- Appreciate that the solution to intergenerational justice is to have fairness in the present generation.
Accreditation
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. By completing the course the learner has achieved 10 hours of CPD time.
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Issued on 9th February 2017
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