教員名

WATANABE Kazuo渡邉和男, MATSUI Kenichi(coordinator)松井 健一（コーディネーター）

所属

Life & Environmental Sciences

教務担当

主実施組織

TA

TF

オフィスアワー

Mon. 15：00?16：00

研究室

Natural Sciences理科系棟B305

電話番号

029-853-6701

E-mail

matsui.kenichi.gt＠u.tsukuba.ac.jp

修士レベル
　知の活用力?マネジメント能力?コミュニケーション能力?国際性
博士レベル
　知の創成力?マネジメント能力?コミュニケーション能力?リーダーシップ力?国際性

In this course, you will be able to develop problem analysis skill, knowledge management skill and communication skill regarding your decision about the use of natural resources and daily activities that directly or indirectly affect the health of the natural environment. You will also be able to connect your activities to environmental conservation, water governance, localized practices, and others.

This course helps you to consider your ethical relationships to the natural environment. It provides a broad overview of ethical issues that are pertinent to human-nature relationships. Our topics include the history of environmental ethics; international environmental law, household environmental ethics, water ethics and indigenized environmental ethics. These wide-ranging topics provide contexts for you to discuss the ethical, legal, and social implications of environmental problems, and, in turn, give us better coordinated directions for achieving environmental conservation and sustainability. Throughout this course, you are encouraged to develop and refine your own original and innovative insights on how humans can better coordinate their efforts to deal with many regional and global environmental issues today and tomorrow.

Environmental ethics, International environmental law, intellectual property rights, Water governance, Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge

Assignments
Where to submit: Natural Science Bld. A209, report submission box
Deadline: TBA
Where to pick up: Natural Science Bld. A209 report return box（early February 2021）

For this course, you will submit one written assignment in 365体育投注. The topic of your paper can be chosen from the lecture contents of this course. If you have questions about this writing assignment, please feel free to ask the coordinator of this course. Although you are strongly
advised to meet the deadlines, if you require extension due to some unavoidable reason, please contact the coordinator ASAP. In considering the extension, you may be asked to submit a proper document.

You may use the following academic style guides for detailed specifications for writing:
- Chicago Manual of Style
- MLA (Modern Language Association):http://www.mla.org/style_faq
- APA (American Psychological Association):http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
- Council of Science Editors (CSE)’s Scientific Styles and Format.

Warning on Plagiarism: If one takes the words, ideas, or research of another person(s) without proper citation as if these were his or her own, such a person is considered to have committed the act of plagiarism. Plagiarism is intellectual theft and a clear violation of the code of ethics and behavior, which often result into a severe penalty. Some web sites (e.g., Wikipedia) often lure students to copy a large portion of its web pages without citation. Please be aware such a work cannot be considered worth being part of admitting a credit in this course.

In-Class Contribution
This course seeks to provide “a safe learning environment,” in which all students are welcome to express their opinions without worrying about making mistakes. You are expected to share your opinion with other students and learn from each other with due respect. Keeping this in mind
as the basic underlying principle of this course, I occasionally ask you to express or write your opinion in progress about some issues that are salient in environmental ethics.

＜Day 1＞ (Subject to slight change)
9:00-9:30 Course Orientation (Matsui)
9:30-12:00 History of the Environmental Ethics (Matsui)
<<Lunch Break>>
13:30-16:00 Household Environmental Ethics (Matsui)
16:00-16:30 Discussion
<Day 2>
9:00-12:00 Environmental Ethics and International
Environmental Law (Watanabe)
<<Lunch Break>>
13:30-15:00 (1) Water Ethics (2) Indigenous Peoples and
Environmental Ethics (Matsui)
15:15-16:00 Discussion

特になし

1. Evaluation/2. Percentage
In-class contribution/ 50%
Essay assignment/ 50%
*Minumum 70% of attendance is required.

3. Comments on Grading Practices for This Course
You may wonder why you received A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, and other grading marks for your paper. Here is roughly what it means.

A+ or A: This paper has an excellent quality in terms of essay organization, writing skill, originality, mature insights, and independent argument. It is based on your considerable research effort and the sound and original interpretation of sources. The paper is also accompanied with clear and appropriate academic citation and references.

A-: This paper demonstrates its good quality of essay organization, writing skill, originality and independent argument in most part of the discussion. It is based on good research effort and the sound interpretation of sources. The paper is also accompanied with clear and appropriate academic citation and references.

A-/B+: This paper has a potential to be qualified as A- paper with some good revision effort.

B+ or B: This paper contains some good quality discussion with independent argument or insight. However, it falls short in essay organization and clarity of its writing. The argument may be inconsistent at some point or not cohesive enough to make a cogent discussion throughout the paper. It is based on some research effort but has a good potential to be improved by more research work and writing refinement.

B-: This paper basically understands the requirement of the course assignment, but falls short in fully expressing the importance of paper topic. It shows some effort of research on the paper topic but do not effectively convey your thoughts and analysis. Or it does not properly cite sources.

C+, C: This paper has some serious problem with essay organization, writing skill, originality and independent argument. It does not seem to respond to the assignment objective properly though it may be greatly improved with further research and writing improvement.

C-: This paper does not seem to understand the assignment objective. It does not seem to be based on research. However, this paper can be improved with additional research effort and better understanding of essay writing.

D: This paper fails to respond to the course requirement. It needs to resubmit or redo the assignment. Or it may have problem with plagiarism or academic honesty.

1. Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston III, eds., Environemntal Ethics: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
2. Donald Van DeVeer and Christine Pierce, eds., The Environmental Ethics & Policy Book, Thomson Wordsworth, 2003.

A list of recommended readings will be provided during the orientation period on the first day. You are expected to use it for deepening your understanding about lecture content or what is discussed among students in class.

For this course, you will submit one written assignment in 365体育投注. The topic of your paper can be chosen from the lecture contents of this course. If you have questions about this writing assignment, please feel free to ask the coordinator of this course. Although you are strongly advised to meet the deadlines, if you require extension due to some unavoidable reason, please contact the coordinator ASAP. In considering the extension, you may be asked to submit a proper document.

【0A00102】2020環境倫理学概論

The course will be taught in 365体育投注.

TWINS registration: Limited (first 30 persons)
*TWINS registration has been closed because the capacity hasbeen reached.
*The classroom has changed. (Natural Science Building B501 to C103)