Environmental Challenges: Hierarchy in Property Rights (FutureLearn)

Environmental Challenges: Hierarchy in Property Rights (FutureLearn)
Course Auditing
Categories
Effort
Certification
Languages
Misc

MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Environmental Challenges: Hierarchy in Property Rights (FutureLearn)
How does language help us develop our relationship with nature and determine the rights of access and ownership? Increasing populations and social changes are pressurising our relationship with the environment. Property rights are embedded in power structures and land management. This course explores the different ways that nature is perceived by different types of societies and the impact of property rights on natural resource management.

MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

This course explores three approaches to the hierarchy of property rights, and applies these to environmental use and management around the world. It also includes advice on producing a policy brief for an environmental issue.


Syllabus


Week 1: The principles of hierarchy in property rights

Week 2: Applying the principles


What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Explain the difference in perceptions of nature between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists.

- Explore the different 'bundles' of access rights associated with natural resource ownership, as described by Ostrom.

- Discuss Boserup’s theory that greater population densities can lead to improved land management.

- Summarise a key environmental issue and produce a briefing note appropriate for decision making.


Who is the course for?

The course is suitable for anyone with a general interest in 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.



MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Course Auditing
64.00 EUR

MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.