Environmental Challenges
Justice in Natural Resource Management
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more The course is suitable for anyone with a general interest in justice and 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. You can use the hashtag #FLenvirojustice to talk about this course on social media.
Topics Covered- Understand the way that thought experiments can be used to generate fundamental principles.
- Have knowledge of the two principles of justice used in the Theory of Justice.
- Be introduced to the approach of John Rawls, often regarded as the greatest moral philosopher of the 20th Century.
- Understand the difference between economic approaches based on the ‘hidden hand’ of a free market, and institutional economics, in which transaction costs are considered to be important.
- Appreciate the factors that reduce transaction costs.
- Be introduced to Douglass North, who is often regarded as the father of modern institutional economics.
- Understand the practical difficulties of applying the principle of equality to decision-making.
- Be able to perform a simple test to show how collective modes of choice can be logically inconsistent.
- Be introduced to Ken Arrow, who demonstrated the difficulty of rational choice in social welfare.
- Be able to recognise the application of Rawls’ principles of justice to policy.
- Understand the violation of the second principle of justice when applied to saving for future generations.
- Appreciate that the solution to intergenerational justice is to have fairness in the present generation.
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