Environmental Management, innovation and Ethics

• Describe several basic ethical theories and applied environmental ethical principles
• Discuss different approaches to environmental management, regulation and decision support
• Differentiate between the ethical and environmental ethical theories and management approaches
• Reflect on environmental issues from the perspective of different ethical theories
• Demonstrate how regulation can be designed so that both helps protect the environment as well as sparks innovation
• Debate the social and ethical implications of different regulatory measures
• Analyse uncertainties and risks in complex environmental issues
• Formulate a regulation and policy strategy for coping with the environmental issues
• Write a political brief on an environmental issue with relevant facts, analysis of problems and solutions and policy recommendations

Basic principles of environmental management approaches: Command and control, consensus, economic tools, CSR and ethics. Basic theory about regulation and innovation: Porter’s hypothesis, technological lock-ins.Basic theory of ethics, emphasis on environmental ethics. Introduction to Backcasting, Impact Assessment (i.e. environmental economics), DPSIR analysis, Stakeholder analysis and Technology Assessment. Analysis of regulatory options when it comes to wicked environmental problems. The role of ethics, philosophy, science and engineering in society. Determinism, uncertainty, ignorance and indeterminacy. Technical and chemical risk management. Environmental principles. The precautionary principle.. The role of engineers as a specialist when it comes to social, environmental and ethical dilemmas. Interpretation of sustainability, moral community and the common versus opportunistic individual needs. How to write a policy brief. Developing policy recommendations.

As many environmental courses as possible, including environmental management courses.

Lectures, exercises, policy brief and recommendations developed in groups