Coursera

Environmental Management & Ethics (Coursera)

Offered by Technical University of Denmark - DTU,
Environmental Management & Ethics (Coursera)

Decision-makers often turn to scientists and engineers to assist them to navigate through complex environmental, health and societal challenges pervaded by systemic uncertainty, ambiguity and ethical implications. This course prepares you to meet the requests and demands of current and future decision-makers and in this course, you will analyze ethical challenges associated with environmental dilemmas and apply different decision making tools relevant to environmental management and regulation.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see Coursera's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Welcome and introduction
The environmental ethical dilemmas that we face a immense. In this module, we will introduce you to our course on Environmental Management & Ethics.

WEEK 2
Environmental ethics
In this module, we will introduce you to environmental ethics in general and three different kinds of environmental ethics in specific.

WEEK 3
Environmental management of wicked problems
In the past, environmental problems were local and we could use our senses to detect them. We could see them, smell them and feel them and we could develop uniform solutions to them. They were tame problems. More and more of the environmental dilemmas and problems that we face are not tame. In this module, you will learn about environmental management of wicked problems in contrast to tame problems.

WEEK 4
Decision-support tools
Tools and methods such as cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, technology assessment often provide support to decision-maker when it making decisions about how to best management the environment and environmental resources. These decision-support tools have different ethical foundations and different set of values embedded in them, which are important to have in mind.

WEEK 5
Environmental regulation and principles
In this module, we will introduce you to the main different kinds of implementing environmental regulation as well as some of the key environmental principles on which environmental management is based internationally.

WEEK 6
Recommendations on your chosen Environmental ethical dilemma
In this module, you will learn-by-doing how hard it can be to develop a set of clear recommendation to solve a given environmental ethical dilemma.

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

Related Courses

Natural Attenuation of Groundwater Contaminants: New Paradigms, Technologies, and Applications (Coursera) Coursera
Rice University

Natural Attenuation of Groundwater Contaminants: New Paradigms, Technologies, and Applications (Coursera)

Sci: Physical & Earth Sciences Sci: Environment

Cleaning up the large number of groundwater contamination sites is a significant and complex environmental challenge. The environmental industry is continuously looking for remediation methods that are both effective and cost-efficient. Over the past 10 years there have been amazing, important developments in our understanding of key attenuation processes and technologies for evaluating natural attenuation processes, and a changing institutional perspective on when and where Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) may be applied.

Oct 26th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Sustainability Environment Technologies
Details
Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies (Coursera) Coursera
Duke University

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies (Coursera)

Personal and Professional Development

We encounter fallacies almost everywhere we look. Politicians, salespeople, and children commonly use fallacies in order to get you to think whatever they want you to think. It’s important to learn to recognize fallacies so that you can avoid being fooled by them. It’s also important to learn about fallacies so that you avoid making fallacious arguments yourself. This course will show you how to identify and avoid many of the fallacies that lead people astray. In this course, you will learn about fallacies. Fallacies are arguments that suffer from one or more common but avoidable defects: equivocation, circularity, vagueness, etc. It’s important to learn about fallacies so that you can recognize them when you see them, and not be fooled by them. It’s also important to learn about fallacies so that you avoid making fallacious arguments yourself.

Nov 9th 2026
4 Weeks
Personal Development Argue Reason
Details
Climate Solutions (Coursera) Coursera
University of Edinburgh

Climate Solutions (Coursera)

Sci: Environment

This short course has been designed by award-winning climate change experts and passionate educators to give you an insight into the greatest challenge of our era. Through completing the course, you'll gain a deeper understanding of core climate concepts such as mitigation, adaptation, climate justice, carbon footprinting, net zero and solutions frameworks.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Environment Climate Change Climate Mitigation
Details
Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Accountants (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Accountants (Coursera)

Business

Accountants perform a wide variety of activities which include, but are not limited to, accounting, auditing, tax, management consulting, and financial management. However, a professional accountant’s responsibility is not exclusively to satisfy the needs of an employer or professional services client. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the accounting profession is its acceptance of the responsibility to act in the public interest.

Nov 9th 2026
4 Weeks
Business Management Ethics
Details
Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life (Coursera)

Sci: Energy & Earth Sciences Sci: Environment

This course teaches you everything you need to know about energy, the environment, and at least a number of things in everyday life. It starts by talking about energy itself and where it comes from. This includes how much we have, who has it, who uses it, and what that all means. The video clips are produced in a fast-paced multimedia format during which Professor Ruzic throws in fun and demonstrations. There are multiple-choice questions to check your understanding and some more in-depth exercises to guide you deeper into the subject.

Oct 26th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Global Warming Sustainability Energy
Details
An Introduction to Global Health (Coursera) Coursera
University of Copenhagen

An Introduction to Global Health (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

This course will provide you with an overview of the most important health challenges facing the world today. You will gain insight into how challenges have changed over time, we will discuss the likely determinants of such changes and examine future projections. Successful international strategies and programs promoting human health will be highlighted and global health governance structures will be mapped and the role of the key actors explored.

Oct 26th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Health Environment Climate Change
Details
Quantitative Methods (Coursera) Coursera
University of Amsterdam

Quantitative Methods (Coursera)

Engineering Statistics & Data Analysis

Discover the principles of solid scientific methods in the behavioral and social sciences. Join us and learn to separate sloppy science from solid research! This course will cover the fundamental principles of science, some history and philosophy of science, research designs, measurement, sampling and ethics. The course is comparable to a university level introductory course on quantitative research methods in the social sciences, but has a strong focus on research integrity. We will use examples from sociology, political sciences, educational sciences, communication sciences and psychology.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Ethics Research Methods Social Sciences
Details
Drones for Environmental Science (Coursera) Coursera
Duke University

Drones for Environmental Science (Coursera)

Sci: Environment

Duke Environment+ will be hosting a virtual informational session on Drones for Environmental Science on July 25 at 7 p.m. ET. For more details and to register for the Zoom webinar, see the related FAQ at the bottom of this page. How can drones be used for good in environmental science? What types of data can scientists collect, and how should they go about collecting it using drones? Why should someone integrate drones into their existing career or pursue this field?

Nov 9th 2026
4 Weeks
Environmental Science Monitoring Drones
Details
Working for a sustainable future: concepts and approaches (Coursera) Coursera
Lund University

Working for a sustainable future: concepts and approaches (Coursera)

Sci: Environment

In this course, participants are introduced to key notions and concepts evolving in sustainability science that are relevant to all, independent to one's work or field of interest. After having completed the course, participants will have a better understanding of the vocabulary used today and should demonstrate the ability to reflect critically to integrate different perspectives of environmental, social, and economic sustainability to their specific area of interest or research.

Nov 2nd 2026
5-12 Weeks
Sustainability Innovation Environment
Details
Communicating Data Science Results (Coursera) Coursera
University of Washington

Communicating Data Science Results (Coursera)

Statistics & Data Analysis Data Science

Making predictions is not enough! Effective data scientists know how to explain and interpret their results, and communicate findings accurately to stakeholders to inform business decisions. Visualization is the field of research in computer science that studies effective communication of quantitative results by linking perception, cognition, and algorithms to exploit the enormous bandwidth of the human visual cortex. In this course you will learn to recognize, design, and use effective visualizations.

Oct 26th 2026
3 Weeks
Ethics Cloud Computing Privacy
Details