Ecosystem Services
a Method for Sustainable Development
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Rating | 4.6★ based on 73 ratings |
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Length | 6 weeks |
Effort | 5 weeks of study, 2-5 hours per week |
Starts | Jul 17 (44 weeks ago) |
Cost | $49 |
From | University of Geneva via Coursera |
Instructors | Martin Schlaepfer, Juliet Jane Fall, Anthony Lehmann |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Engineering Science |
Tags | Social Sciences Governance And Society Physical Science And Engineering Environmental Science And Sustainability |
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ecosystem service
The course are well-organised and discuss ecosystem service at different aspect, including valuation, data collection and mapping, critique and mainstreaming at a very detail way.
It give a whole picture on what ecosystem service is and how it can affect policy making to achieve a sustainable development.
The concept of ecosystem services itself appears to be the most obvious development strategy once you hear about it., which makes it very surprising that it does not crop up more often.
Excellent course that covers the important points of the ecosystem services approach and how it may be influencing decisions at multiple levels of government and practice.
I already had some educational background in ecosystem services prior to this course.
The lecturers did thoroughly discuss the ethical implications of monetization over other, more implicit methods of ecosystem services valuation (although they were not as clear as they could have been with those terms, for example referring to "ecosystem services" as a method rather than a term to describe environmental impacts on humans that implies a specific mindset towards the environment).
I have a mch cleared ideas of how I can contribute to mainstreaming natural capital, ecosystem services making justice to nature, human beeing and keeping in consideration diverse stakeholders needs and ways of thinking.
Great introductory course to Ecosystem Services.
Professor Martin created an excellent content, connecting with professors from different view-point, and giving a thorough perspective of Ecosystem Services at the same time making us thinking about how to move to the next step.
Ecosystem services is one of most suppressed issue in the field of environment.
Excellent course that serves as an excellent primer on Ecosystem Services.
I learned a great deal about valuing ecosystem services and its complex challenges.
Perfect spoken and written English Really interesting and useful course to obtain great insights of the Ecosystem Services approach.
It is interesting to see how there are some public policies in the interest of ecosystem services around the world.
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introduction to ecosystem services
Awesome introduction to Ecosystem Services.
It is a very good introduction to Ecosystem Services.
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very interesting
Very interesting and inspiring course.
The videos and the transcription helped to make the course very interesting.
Very interesting , and i have learned a lot of things , thank you coursera Gran calidad de información y una continua invitación a alternativas de desarrollo Took almost six months to complete but it was exciting and knowledgeous journey.
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well balanced
Very much appreciated the well balanced and critical perspectives and insightful practical examples.
This is not an easy topic, but this is well-done, well balanced, and brings many various different views, therefore including objectivity on the matter.
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well structured
The course is well structured and gives a good insight into the idea of how ES operates and the challenges that it faces.
un curso muy completo con teoría, entrevistas y casos prácticos, las lecturas son muy buenas y Great instructors, guest speakers, diversity of topics, well structured format and great supplemental course materials make this course one of the most relevant and interesting classes I ever have taken.
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so many
What I really enjoy about this course is that there are so many different speakers from different sectors.
One of the more challenging courses I've done on Coursera, but I was really happy I learned so many new things.
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makes it
That makes it interesting because it makes you aware of these different approaches of ecosystems services.
The professional quality of this MOOC makes it easy to follow.
decision making
I would like to suggest: (first) including a better substantiation of the ecological foundations of the approach considering that the implicit assumption of nature as “capital” offering “services” has a really weak conceptual base; (second) to profound on the issue of our limited capacity to discount the future where I see an interesting option to apply economic thinking to nature conservation; and (third) to include a more modern approach to decision making in political institutions.
Since the 1970’s we know in policy analysis pretty well that decision making is conditioned by consensus-conflict-processes and that information processing - even sophisticated one as proposed in the course - is considered in decision making only if it fits to the results of consensus-conflict processes.
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but also
Not only the content but also teachers make this course enjoyable.
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Ecosystem Solution Architect $149k
Analytical Ecosystem Architect $159k
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Senior Ecosystem Program Manager $205k
Head - AWS North America Consulting Partner Ecosystem Lead $237k
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Rating | 4.6★ based on 73 ratings |
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Length | 6 weeks |
Effort | 5 weeks of study, 2-5 hours per week |
Starts | Jul 17 (44 weeks ago) |
Cost | $49 |
From | University of Geneva via Coursera |
Instructors | Martin Schlaepfer, Juliet Jane Fall, Anthony Lehmann |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Engineering Science |
Tags | Social Sciences Governance And Society Physical Science And Engineering Environmental Science And Sustainability |
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