Environmental Challenges - Rights and Values in Ecosystem Services FutureLearn

Overview

Humans are very innovative, but we’ve also created many ecological problems. We’ve changed the face of the planet, fished the oceans, and we’re causing climate change through emissions.

Key facts:

Designing institutional arrangements that recognise ecosystem services in the values we place upon natural systems will be an important way to help governing the planet, for both present and future generations.

Environmental Challenges - Rights and Values in Ecosystem Services at University of Leeds by FutureLearn  explores three approaches to rights and values, and applies these to ecosystem services around the world. It also includes advice on producing press releases about environmental issues.

What will you achieve?

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

• Identify the three main types of values and demonstrate how they might be applied to decision-making about natural resources.

• Explain the concept of Coasian bargaining and describe a narrative that demonstrates the impact on environmental equality.

• Demonstrate why the precautionary principle is one of the fundamental principles used for decision-making about the environment.

• Explore how a well-written news report can change people’s opinions and values.