Environmental Studies

This course offers a critical overview of anthropological approaches to the environment. It introduces a set of contemporary and now classic literature on nature produced by anthropologists and social scientists more broadly, while critically engaging with contemporary environmental issues. This course examines key anthropological approaches organized into three key themes of community, capitalism, and multispecies entanglements. 

This course discusses the challenges of an increasing demand for meat, milk, and eggs produced in a manner that is environmentally sound and socioeconomically acceptable. It focusses on the production cycles of pig, cattle, and poultry production under Danish conditions. The course investigates the effects of management, housing, breeding, nutrition, productivity, health, animal ethics and welfare, resource consumption, and environmental impact of livestock production. It explores a range of different livestock production systems and works with the opportunities and challenges of implementing sustainable practices within them.

This course offers a study of environmental impact assessment including its origin, legislative frameworks, and practical applications.

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to international development discourses with a focus on water and development issues. Attention is given to outlining conceptual frameworks addressing the relevant underlying ecological, political, economic, and sociological principles in evaluating and managing water issues. 

This course examines the concepts, theories and techniques required to describe dynamic environmental systems and to develop mathematical models to explore their behavior. Systems thinking and modelling approaches are applied to several important environmental systems and processes including chemical and biological transformations in water and air pollution applications, ecological models and population dynamics, global climate change, water balances in lakes and reservoirs, and energy and mass transfer. 

This course examines the chemical and biological basis of the material properties of wood, how forestry can control these and the concept of wood quality. It also covers various wood processing industries, ranging from sawmilling over engineered wood products to pulping and biofuels. Reference will be made to the most suitable resource for individual products and how forest management can impact on the value of the timber.

The course is divided into the following basic sections:

·Water Treatment and Water Pollution Control Engineering

·Solid Waste and Hazardous Solid Waste Management, Treatment and Disposal Engineering

·Air pollution control engineering

·Clean energy and soil and groundwater pollution control engineering

Overall objective: to provide students with a basic understanding of the principles, main contents and development frontiers of environmental engineering, to cultivate their interest in engineering solutions to hot environmental issues, and to help them identify their interests and directions for further study and research in the future.

This introductory course offers a long-term view of the interactions between human societies and their natural environment in order to better understand sustainable development challenges in the present. 

This course provides the basic qualifications needed to use and describe the principles of modern geospatial science and geographic information systems. It provides a conceptual and practical introduction to geographic information systems with emphasis on practical data handling and data analysis. Teaching consists of lectures and practical computer exercises and two minor reports are produced during the course. The course identifies suitable methods to perform spatial analyses common in biological research and monitoring. Analyses is performed in the geographic information system software and documented in a professional scientific report.