Undergraduate Environmental Sciences 2026-2027

This course focuses on the ethical aspects of the two environmental challenges of our times: climate change and biodiversity loss. It is obvious to most that it is of the utmost importance that we do something to manage our changing climate and to increase biodiversity. Furthermore, the environmental sciences provide plenty of suggestions on how we might do this. But decisions on what to do have significant impacts on the natural world and human society. This course introduces students in the natural sciences to theories and methods from Environmental Ethics which will help them reflect on the ethical aspects of our conservation and mitigation decisions here in Scotland and across the globe.