These courses are part of our Master´s programme, however they are also offered to students who do not want to do an entire Master´s degree but want to study individual courses from the Master´s studies.The courses are as follows:
Adaptive Governance of social-ecological systems
This course focuses on institutional and organizational aspects of ecosystem management, in particular how governance systems may adapt to manage conflicts and enhance social-ecological resilience.
Ecosystem management
The course introduces and explains concepts such as ecological resilience, complex adaptive systems, functional biodiversity, threshold effects, multiple stable domains, cross-scale interactions and social-ecological systems, as well as key challenges for natural resource management in an increasingly globalised world.
Philosophy of science for interdisciplinary environmental research
This course focuses on the interdisciplinary aspect of environmentally oriented science in general.
Resilience, adaptability and transformability
This course introduces the participants to the emerging research area with the same name. Different perspectives on complex adaptive systems and their resilience, adaptability and transformability are discussed by international experts representing various disciplines.
