Environmental Justice
Understand how climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation affect people, exploring justice in environment management.
What You'll Learn in This Course
Master key concepts and practical skills through structured learning modules. By completing this curriculum, you'll gain valuable expertise applicable to real-world scenarios.
Learning Outcome 1
The world faces challenging environmental problems. They are challenging because different people typically contribute differently to environmental change, and because its effects will be felt differently by different people in different places.
Learning Outcome 2
Understand environmental injustices: This free online course will help you understand how injustice is a common feature of many environmental problems. Over 5 weeks, we’ll look at deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change and other environmental issues, asking questions such as: Can we manage tropical forests to increase timber revenues and carbon stocks, while ensuring that the people who live in them can fulfil their own subsistence needs and vision of a healthy ecosystem? How can protected areas strike the right balance between contemporary global interests in species conservation, local interests, the needs of future generations and rights of nature? We’ll show that sustainable environmental management requires attention to justice - that we need to strike the right balance between the needs, interests, rights and aspirations of various stakeholders today, and those of both nature and future generations. Learn with UEA’s Global Environmental Justice Group You’ll learn with the University of East Anglia’s Global Environmental Justice Group, an interdisciplinary mix of scholars interested in the links between social justice and environmental change. Through a series of films shot in Africa, Asia and Latin America, you’ll meet environmental activists and find out how justice can be a powerful motivator for environmental action. You’ll share your own experiences with other learners around the world, thinking about how you can put academic theory into practice, through course discussions, quizzes and assignments. The course will give you a taste of UEA’s MSc in Climate Change and International Development and MSc in Environment and International Development.
Skills You'll Develop
This comprehensive Environmental Justice curriculum is designed to take you from foundational concepts to advanced implementation. Each module builds upon the previous, ensuring a structured learning path that maximizes knowledge retention and practical application.
Course Requirements & Target Audience
Understand what you need to succeed in this course and determine if it's the right fit for your learning goals
What you need before starting this Environmental Justice course:
- Explain the dimensions of environmental justice
- Evaluate different ideas of justice
- Investigate local environmental justice struggles
- Apply an environmental justice framing to global challenges
- Explore practical techniques to empower marginalised communities
This course is perfect for:
- Motivated learners at any level
- Self-paced students
- Anyone interested in the subject
This course might not be suitable if:
- • You're looking for a quick tutorial rather than comprehensive learning
- • You prefer learning without structured curriculum
- • You need highly specialized or niche content
Course Information & Details
Everything you need to know about this online course, from duration to certification
Course Instructor
EJ Atlas
Expert instructor with industry experience
Subject Category
Nature & Environment, Politics & Society, Sustainability
Part of our Nature & Environment, Politics & Society, Sustainability curriculum
Course Language
English
All materials in English
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What's Included
- Why environmental justice?
- Justice as multi-dimensional
- Principles of justice
- Is justice political?
- Odisha case study
- A political activist’s perspective
- ✓Instant access after enrollment
- ✓Learn at your own pace
- ✓Direct enrollment with UEA (University of East Anglia)
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