The aim for this foundational stream course is to prepare the students to systematically think about and work towards formulating and achieving concrete environmental objectives in the world of scarce resources and competing agendas. The topics within the course include: Introduction to the idea of management. Management mindsets: approaches to framing and resolving problems at the interface of the environment and human activities. Difference between management, policy and science. The role of economic thinking in environmental management and the main principles and elements of such thinking; The importance of analysis and planning for management. The basic principles of Environmental Management Systems (EMS). Dealing with complexities, uncertainties, innovation, and diversity of perceptions and perspectives interests in environmental management. Management strategies. What is a strategy and how it may be conceived and implemented?
- Instructors: Anastasia Pavlenko, Aleh Cherp