interactions
Course
Managing Human-Environment Interactions
Availability to other courses
Module No.
Module name
Managing Human-Environment Interactions
ECTS-LP (Workload)
Module length
Semester/return
No. of participants
5 (125 h)
3 weeks
Contact hours
Start date
Location
Instruction Language
English
Module coordinators
Additional teaching staff
Syllabus
All people live within an environmental context and all societies have developed ways of
managing their interactions with their environment. This course explores the various ways in
which societies organize and manage relationships with their environmental context and their
use and appreciation of natural resources. Social institutions can take many forms: rituals,
traditions, informal practices, and formalized procedures. The primary sources of social
institutions for managing human-environment interactions include: family, community,
religion, economic trade, law and politics. This course will focus primarily on five major
institutions: property, community, social organizations, markets, and law.
This course builds upon and applies the perspectives learned in the three modules on
analyzing human-environment interactions. While the disciplines for understanding people,
economies, and ecological processes tend not to consider the context of action, a
management perspective requires contextual analysis and understanding. This module links
analysis of people, politics, markets, and ecosystems by examining the institutions and ideas
connecting them.
Students will have a core set of readings to introduce them to the main institutions for
managing human environment interactions. Student teams will examine different institutions
in more depth and give presentations to the class. Classes will be a mix of lecture and
discussion where students have prepared the readings in advance.
In addition, this module will have two training workshops to give students an opportunity to
learn practical ways of working with people in managing the environment.
Managing Human-Environment Interactions
Availability to other courses
Module No.
Module name
Managing Human-Environment Interactions
ECTS-LP (Workload)
Module length
Semester/return
No. of participants
5 (125 h)
3 weeks
Contact hours
Start date
Location
Instruction Language
English
Module coordinators
Additional teaching staff
Syllabus
All people live within an environmental context and all societies have developed ways of
managing their interactions with their environment. This course explores the various ways in
which societies organize and manage relationships with their environmental context and their
use and appreciation of natural resources. Social institutions can take many forms: rituals,
traditions, informal practices, and formalized procedures. The primary sources of social
institutions for managing human-environment interactions include: family, community,
religion, economic trade, law and politics. This course will focus primarily on five major
institutions: property, community, social organizations, markets, and law.
This course builds upon and applies the perspectives learned in the three modules on
analyzing human-environment interactions. While the disciplines for understanding people,
economies, and ecological processes tend not to consider the context of action, a
management perspective requires contextual analysis and understanding. This module links
analysis of people, politics, markets, and ecosystems by examining the institutions and ideas
connecting them.
Students will have a core set of readings to introduce them to the main institutions for
managing human environment interactions. Student teams will examine different institutions
in more depth and give presentations to the class. Classes will be a mix of lecture and
discussion where students have prepared the readings in advance.
In addition, this module will have two training workshops to give students an opportunity to
learn practical ways of working with people in managing the environment.
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