BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (Bsc.) ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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OBJECTIVE OF STUDY AND COURSE OUTLINE FOR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (Bsc.) ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

 

 

The course will provide a critical survey of the contemporary field of environmental policy, planning and management in the international contexts. The course is centrally concerned with understanding deliberate efforts to translate environmental knowledge into action in order to achieve particular outcomes in the way landscapes, societies and/or natural ecosystems are used and managed. It will also consider how the objectives for land and resource use are shaped, fashioned and contested in democratic and non-democratic settings.

 

The course will introduce students to the dominant management models that have been applied historically.

 

This work will set the scene for an analysis of contemporary approaches to environmental policy making, planning and management.

 

The course will critically examine contemporary thinking on these environmental themes including: sustainable use practices, political-ecology, decentralized environmental management, NGO and community-based approaches, social learning, and regional and urban planning. A feature of the course’s examination of contemporary approaches will be in-depth critical analyses of prominent cases of environmental management, including Regional Forest.

 

The emerging international environmental challenges for climate change adaptation, agro-ecosystems, biodiversity conservation and megacities.

 

COURSE CONTENT

WEEK 1

  • Introduction

Week 2

  • Introduction to environmental management systems and related standards (EMS)

  • Definitions

  • Validation

  • Key practices

Week 3

  • The benefits of implementing an EMS

  • Trends and future developments

  • EMS and natural heritage gains

Week 4

  • Biodiversity

  • What is biodiversity

  • Genetic biodiversity

  • Some biodiversity facts

  • The importance of biodiversity

  • Threats to biodiversity

  • How to help biodiversity

Week 5

  • The precautionary principle and environmental risk management

  • Abstract

  • Introduction

  • The advantages and limitations of the models

  • Practice to consider precautionary decision making

Week 6

  • Sustainable development

  • Meaning

  • Sustainability and history of sustainability

  • Definitions

  • The sustainable development goals (SDG)

Week 7

  • Sustainable agriculture

  • Ecological economics

  • Environmental economics

Week 8

  • Energy

  • Smart grid and sustainable energy

  • Manufacturing: green manufacturing and distributed manufacturing and technology

  • Environmental technology

  • Sustainable transport

Week 9

  • Business

  • Corporate sustainability

  • Income

Week 10

  • Architecture

  • Sustainable architecture

  • Politics: environmental politics

  • Culture

Week 11

  • More on sustainable development goals

  • Ecological footprint and sustainability measurement

  • Natural capital

  • Business as usual

Week 12

  • Education

  • Education and sustainable development

Week 13

  • Natural resources

  • Classification

  • Extracting or mining

  • Depletion of resources

  • Environmental protection

Week 14

  • Natural resources management

Week 15

  • Environmental management and social equity

  • Introduction

  • Environmental management

  • Social equity

Week 16

  • The political – economic context of contemporary environmental management

  • The global – regional context

  • National – local context

  • Social equity and environmental management – some examples

Week 17

  • Pastoralism and wildlife conservation

  • The population question

  • Urban poverty

  • The way forward

Week 18

  • Ecological modernization

Week 19

  • Risk society

  • Definition

  • Background

  • Implication

Week 20

  • Human population growth and climate change

  • Carbon emission by country

  • Climate change and international relations

Week 21

  • Political ecology

  • Overview

  • Scope and influence

  • Political ecology and anthropology

  • Political ecology and conservation

Week 22

  • Ecological crises

  • Abiotic factors

  • Biodiversity extinction

  • Overpopulation (species)

  • Ozone layer depletion

 

Week 23

  • Social ecology

  • History

  • Environmental movement

  • Early awareness

Week 24

  • Conservation movement

  • Formation of environmental formation societies

  • The 20th century

Week 25

  • Environmental movement and the United States

  • Timeline of the US environmental history

Week 26

  • Environmental movement in the Latin America

  • Environmental issues in Brazil, solutions and policies

  • Environmental movement in Europe

  • Asia and middle east

  • South Korea and Taiwan

  • China

  • India

  • Bangladesh

Week 27

  • Africa

  • Environmental movement in Africa

  • South Africa

  • Nigeria

  • MOSOP

  • Ogoni bill of rights

  • Early 1910 and the Ogoni crises 1992

  • The Ogoni 9

WEEK 28

  • Environmental laws and theories

  • Property rights

  • Citizens’ rights

  • Natures rights

  • Environmental re – activism

  • Radical environmentalism

     

    GOOD LUCK