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Environmental Ethics

Subject
Subject code ATÖ369
Subject name Environmental Ethics
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Grade prelim
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2014 KT
Study year 3
Semester Fall semester
Subject type Mandatory
Subject loads
Lecture 32
General description
The philosophical and natural scientific aspects of environmental ethics. Forming and developing value attitudes. Nature preservation related and regulatory ideas. Environmental education and training. The issue of nature as a value itself. Environmental ethics and the ethics of an economical society. The balance between the man and nature – the principle of sustainability. Environmental protection, legislation, and policy. International regulatory acts, environmental awareness.
General aim
The objective of the course is philosophical and natural scientific aspects of environmental ethics.
Aim
Student:
- knows philosophies and natural scientific viewpoints of environmental ethics;
- can give assessments to situations.
Form description
Lectures, seminars, solving problem situations and giving assessments
Literature
Väärtused ja konfliktid keskkonnaeetikas. Konverentsi kogumik
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