Advanced - Sustainability and Environmental Balance

Goals

• Explain the relationship between resilience, transdisciplinary, ecosystem health and ultimately, sustainability
• Critically evaluate key components of ecosystem health and resilience theory
• Use ecosystem health and resilience theory to interpret, understand and analyze real world cases in complex adaptive systems
• Understand environmental management from differing theoretical perspectives especially that of complexity theory
• Uunderstanding of the principles and philosophy of environmental management
• Demonstration of how environmental management is used in problem solving
• Impruve the roles of various actors and organizations in environmental management practice
• Learnt how to illustrate the use of environmental management tools as support features for management
• Understand the current limitations of environmental management and alternative approaches which address growing environmental complexity