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Nature matters: caring and accountability

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Nature matters: caring and accountability
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This free course, Nature matters: caring and accountability, considers environmental responsibility and what may matter from a caring perspective and an accountability perspective. Caring for an environment compromising the natural world and ensuring accountability for harm or wrong done to the environment.

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After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • describe environmental matters regarding obligation and entitlements from a ‘caring’ perspective
  • appreciate the significance of environmental consequentialist ethics in conversations around developing care
  • identify and compare formal and less formal expressions of environmental responsibility
  • understand ‘accountability’ in the context of environmental issues
  • identify the opportunities for conversations between scientific and non-scientific perspectives in promoting environmental responsibility.

First Published: 16/08/2012

Updated: 17/03/2016

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