Scope 5 ECTS (1 ECTS=27 hours)
Info
Enable yourself the ability to identify responsible use of natural resources!
Content
Values behind environmental attitudes
- Humanistic thinking
- Romantic thinking
- Free markets and welfare state
- Role of technology
Basics of Environmental Economics
- Natural capital
- Eternality
- Market failure
- Common goods and public goods
- Valuation
- Subsidies
Sustainability
- International and national definitions
- Social and environmental sustainability
- Sustainable development
Climate chance impacts to environment
- Precipitation
- Temperature
- Natural disasters
Global natural resources
- Food production (agriculture, fishing industry)
- Fresh water
- Mining
- Forests
Global agreements on environment
- EIA internationally
- Participatory planning (Århus)
- Rio agreements
- Climate summits
- WTO and global trade
Course includes case studies on subjects closely related to local conditions and problems in students’ country of origin.
Target audience
– For Business: Experts working in relevant fields
– For Education: Leaders, experts at all levels, 3rd or 4th year students of the associated/applicable involved degree programs
Availability January-June and upon request yearly
Trainer
Senior Lecturer Markus Huhtinen ([email protected])
Interested? Contact for more info
www.karelia.fi