Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Environmental Challenges: Hierarchy in Property Rights
This online course explored hierarchy in property rights, examining the impact on equality and power within environmental management. It introduced the skills needed to write concise policy briefings.
2 weeks, 5 hours per week
Professor Jon Lovett
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the difference in perceptions of nature between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists.
- Explore the different 'bundles' of access rights associated with natural resource ownership, as described by Ostrom.
- Discuss Boserup’s theory that greater population densities can lead to improved land management.
- Summarise a key environmental issue and produce a briefing note appropriate for decision making.
Syllabus
- Recognise the difference between the perspectives of the ‘giving spirit of nature’ and ‘controlling ancestor’ in our perceptions of nature.
- Understand the meaning of ‘reciprocity’ as a way of reducing risk in uncertain environments.
- Be introduced to Elinor Ostrom who developed a hierarchy of different types of property rights.
- Recognise different types of property rights and how they affect access to, and withdrawal of, natural resources.
- Appreciate the need for flexible property rights in areas with dynamic ecologies.
- Be introduced to the contrasting arguments of Thomas Malthus and Ester Boserup on population and agricultural production.
- Understand the concept of ‘more people, less erosion’ when higher population densities lead to better land management.
- Recognise the links between property rights and level of biodiversity in agriculture.
- Understand how ‘historical institutionalism’ of past laws affects current legal rights to natural resources.
- Appreciate the social asymmetries caused by the power to control access to natural resources.
- Recognise the importance of language for describing local systems of natural resource management.
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 5th November 2020
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