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| ENVT0860-1 | Environmental Controversies
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| Duration : | 20h Th, 20h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | François Melard |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | The course on the controversies of the Master in Environmental Sciences and Management is grounded on a sociological approach of contemporary environmental issues. |
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| Course objective : | To draw party from unfolding the controversies in order to seize their multiple and contradictory stakes. The objective is to train the students with a cross vision of problems by giving them the (theoretical and methodological) means to follow the coevolution of the actors and nature's beings. |
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| Prerequisites : | None |
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| Workshops : | Working groups will be setup in order to introduce in public and put into debat environmental's case studies (presented in scientific articles). |
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| Organization : | The course is organized in first half of the year. It rests on an alternate of lectures and collective discussion of case studies. |
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| Written notes : | A compilation of articles will be made available to the students. |
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| Assessment : | The evaluation will take into acount...
- the group's work (presentation of the case study);
- the result of the individual oral examination.
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| Contacts : | François Mélard - f.melard@ulg.ac.be
Phone: 063/230 901 |
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| Remarks : | A certain number of questions will come to structure the course, such as...
- Why can we learn from controversies?
- What are the relations between controversies and uncertainties?
- Who are the actors of a controversy?
- How to cartography a controversy?
- Quid of the artificial maintenance of a controversy?
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