Key Information
About the content
Understand how environmental change affects people, and how we can work together for justice in environmental management.
Prerequisite
This course is designed for people who are already working on environmental problems or are familiar with environmental issues. It seeks to address environmentalists around the world although a background on international development will be useful.
Syllabus
Week 1: Conception of environmental justice
Week 2: Politics of environmental justice
Week 3: Local perspective of environmental justice
Week 4: Global perspective of environmental justice
Week 5: Practical approaches to environmental justice research
Instructors
Adrian Martin
He's a social scientist who works on issues of conservation and development and environmental justice. His research is mainly in Sub Saharan Africa
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
