Environmental Challenges: Justice in Natural Resource Management

When looking at different societies and cultures around the world, it is interesting how ubiquitous the principles of justice are. It is part of our human nature to think about equality and consider fairness as something that we do naturally. However, in practical terms, equality is hard to achieve.

This course explores three aspects of justice and applies these to environmental issues surrounding natural resource management around the world. It also introduces the Strategic Environmental Assessment and Terms of Reference.

The course is suitable for anyone with a general interest in justice and environmental decision-making; no previous knowledge or experience is required.

If you are working in environmental management, or wish to learn more about it, this course is designed to support you as a professional. By completing all aspects of the course you will have achieved 14 hours of CPD time.

• The principles of fairness and justice
• Welcome
• The justice principle
• Transaction costs
• Arrow impossibility
• Revision
• Summary
• Applying the principles
• About week 2
• Case study: The conundrum of future generations
• Discussion: Natural resource management in Nepal
• Writing about - Terms of Reference
• Revision
• Summary