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Postgraduate Course: Values and the Environment (P) (PGGE11114)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaPostgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course examines issues related to two important modes of human valuing of nature, the ethical and the aesthetic. The first part of the course covers key concepts and theories in environmental ethics, including: anthropocentrism and nonanthropocentrism; animal ethics; holistic and biocentric theories; and recent attempts to develop an urban environmental ethic. In the second part we examine aesthetic and landscape values in our engagement with wild nature, rural environments and other cultural landscapes, and conflicts that arise between aesthetic and ethical valuing of natural environments in both theory and practice.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  50
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-11 11:10 - 13:00
First Class First class information not currently available
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- a critical understanding of key concepts and theories in environmental ethics;
- a critical grasp of aesthetic theories in relation to a range of environments, from the wild to the urban;
- an understanding of the roles of values in engagement with a range of environments and the conflicts that arise between values in conservation practice;
- expression of students' own critical arguments on environmental values in discussion and in writing.
Assessment Information
3000 word essay/project
Special Arrangements
Unavailable to non-MSc Environment, Culture and Society students in 2010/11.
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list General Course Reading List
Armstrong SJ and Botzler R eds. (2004) Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Brady E (2003) Aesthetics of the Natural Environment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
DesJardins J (2000) Environmental Ethics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Jamieson D (2003) A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. London: Blackwell.
Leopold A ([1949] 2000) $łThe Land Ethic&©, Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press.
O&©Neill J, Light A and Holland A (2008) Environmental Values. New York: Routledge.
Schmidtz D and Willott E eds. (2001) Environmental Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Throop, W ed. (2000) Environmental Restoration: ethics, theory and practice. Humanity Books.
Useful journals: Environmental Ethics; Environmental Values; Ethics, Place and Environment; Ethics and Environment.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsPGGE1114, environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, values, conservation, philosophy
Contacts
Course organiserDr Emily Brady
Tel: (0131 6)50 9137
Email: Emily.Brady@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Caroline Keir
Tel: (0131 6)50 2543
Email: caroline.keir@ed.ac.uk
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