Philosophy of Politics 2200-EU003
1. Introduction: In the Search of a Universal Political Idea
2. Sustainability: Exploring the Contradictions - Scarcity or Abundance?
3. Natural Capital: a Misleading Category? - The Problem of the Value of Nature - To Reach Beyond Utilitarianism: An Arduous Task
4. What is So Good About Biodiversity?
5. Enivronmental Concepts, Political Ideas, Popular Slogans
6. Environmental Justice - Law and Environment - What Do We Owe Future Generations?
7. Politics and Environment: Human – Nature – Political Values
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge: the graduate knows and understands
- foundational principles underlying the social, economic, legal, and various non-technical factors influencing energy activities.
- multidimensionality of climate law including scientific and political conditions;
- main transformation trends in climate protection area and energy sector;
- intellectual property law in a given academic domain.
Skills: the graduate is able to
- communicate in professional and other areas; Know the basic taxonomy used in the energy sector;
- prepare legal texts, use legislative technique;
- use intellectual property law in a given academic domain.
Social competences: the graduate is ready to
- think and act in an entrepreneurial manner;
- respects intellectual property law in a given academic domain.
Bibliography
1. World Conservation Strategy. Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development, IUCN, 1980.
2. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, (The Bruntland Report), 1987.
3. The Endangered Species Act of 1973.
4. Beckerman, Wilfred, „«Sustainable Development»: Is it a Useful Concept?”, Environmental Values , Autumn 1994, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn 1994), pp. 191-209.
5. Feinberg, Joel, „The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations”, in: Philosophy and Environmental Crisis, William T. Blackstone [ed], , Athens, GA, The University of Georgia Press, 1974, pp. 43-68.
6. Ferré, Frederick, „Persons in Nature: Toward an Applicable and Unified Environmental Ethics”, Ethics in the Environment, 1 (1) 1996, pp. 15-25.
7. Jamieson, Dale [ed], A Companion to Environmental Philosophy, Blackwell, Malden, MA – Oxford, 2001.
8. Maier, Donald, S., What's So Good About Biodiversity? A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature's Value, Springer 2012.
9. Redclift, Michael, Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions, London: Methuen, 1987.
10. Simon, Julian L., „Scarcity or Abundance?”, in: The Business of Consumption, [ed] L. Westra, P.H. Werhane, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefiled, 1998, pp. 237 – 245.
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