Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)
There is a growing awareness of the finiteness of Earth’s natural resources and the planetary boundaries that will limit future human activities. Over the last 30 years, there has been a profound re-evaluation of the public policies governing not only nature conservation, the environment and natural resources but also, more broadly, all of the public policies touching on the exploitation of those resources.
There are many findings and reports on how critical the situations are in numerous domains of human interaction with their environment—climate, biodiversity, landscapes, energy, resource extraction, diverse polluted emissions (e.g. water, air, soil), waste, et cetera. They all call for fundamental structural transformations and the overhaul of the organisation and functioning of numerous economic sectors, as well as the public policies and legal property regimes that regulate them.
Within the framework of this CAS, the “ecological transition” is fundamentally envisaged as a dual process: (1) a paradigm shift in environmental policies (from the comprehensive emissions limitation paradigm to the sustainable resource management and allocation paradigm); and (2) the greening of policies regarding the exploitation of environmental resources (energy, land-use planning, mobility, agriculture, industry, et cetera).
This course will address the principal issues relating to the ecological transition using policy analysis tools from the fields of public policy and property rights.
Course Manager
Prof. Stéphane Nahrath
+41 21 692 69 40
Stephane.Nahrath@unil.ch
Studies Secretariat
Fatma.Yavavli@unil.ch
+41 21 692 69 17