Course code

MLB6004.LT

old course code

MLB6004

Course title in Estonian

Säästev Läänemere piirkond

Course title in English

A Sustainable Baltic Region

ECTS credits

7.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Major. Integrated approach to the problems relating to the environment and the development of the Baltic Region.

Brief description of the course

The course is carried out within the frames of the Baltic University Programme. The Programme is co-ordinated by Uppsala University (Sweden). The theory of sustainable development. Societies and human ecology. Energy and energy politics. Material flows and geochemical circulations. Sustainable agriculture and forestry, possibilities for feeding in a sustainable way. Sustainable industry and production. Sustainable transport. Sustainable houses and regional infrastructure. Sustainable economy. The foundations of sustainable development, ethics and law. Policy of sustainable development. Course components: booklets, video-tapes in English and supplementary material on the Internet. Introductory lectures and seminars in Estonian. Only those students who have written a report on a selected topic are allowed to take the exam.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is capable of comparing ways of management from the standpoint of sustainable development;
- knows positive examples concerning the application of sustainable activities in communities.

Teacher

dots Tiina Elvisto

Study programmes containing that course

Biology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLBB/11.LT)
Geoecology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLGB/11.LT)
Biology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLBB/10.LT)
Geoecology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLGB/10.LT)
Biology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLBB/09.LT)
Geoecology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLGB/09.LT)
Geoecology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLGB/08.LT)
Biology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLBB/00.LT)
Geoecology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLGB/00.LT)