The course will equip you with literacy in current environmental thinking focusing on issues of sustainability and processes of public consultation. Engineers, planners and environmental consultants need to understand the diverse public values at play in environmental controversies and the different interpretations of sustainable development that arise from divergent world views, preferences, values and interests of key social actors.

Practical skills for the design and carriage of appropriate public consultation and engagement processes in the context of policy and planning guidelines will be conveyed. The course will concentrate on a range of issues concerning climate change including: carbon budgets, divestment, individual responsibility for climate action, and the morality of exporting fossil fuels, drawing on philosophical discussions of ethics and justice related issues and different value claims that are implicit in public debates concerning the environment and climate change.