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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
- Explore a thought experiment to generate fundamental principles.
- Contribute to a debate around the two principles used in the Theory of Justice.
- Apply the approach of John Rawls, often regarded as the greatest moral philosopher of the 20th Century.
- Compare free-market economics, based on the ‘hidden hand’ of a free market, and institutional economics, in which transaction costs are considered to be important.
- Identify the factors that reduce transaction costs.
- Explain the language and approach of Douglass North, who is often regarded as the father of modern institutional economics.
- Reflect on the practical difficulties of applying the principle of equality to decision-making.
- Demonstrate how collective modes of choice can be logically inconsistent using a simple test.
- Discuss the difficulty of rational choice in social welfare demonstrated by Ken Arrow.
- Develop applications of Rawls’ principles of justice to policy.
- Reflect on the violation of the second principle of justice when applied to saving for future generations.
- Investigate ways to stimulate fairness in the present generation, as a solution to intergenerational justice.
- Produce an outline Terms of Reference document for a Strategic Environmental Assessment.
Syllabus
- John Rawls’s principles and theory of justice.
- Institutional economics and transaction costs.
- Arrow Impossibility and problems with collective decision making.
- Case studies – challenges to fairness across societies, groups, and generations.
- Introduction to Strategic Environmental Assessment and Terms of Reference.
Issued on 11th December 2016
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