Potential Courses for Winter Semester '07

I've registered for two Master's classes for the winter semester:

1. Water quality management for municipal and industrial water use

Topics include:
Typical uses and requirements of municipal and industrial water management
Institutional and legal conditions
Requirements for data aquisition and processing for decision support
Stakeholders within management processes, decision support systems and measures.
Examples for development and implementation.


2. Sustainable Development I - Principles of sustainable economies

Topics include:
Non-sustainable trends
Theories and concepts of sustainable development
History of the term "sustainable development"
Global networking
Integrated Sustainability Assessment
Measuring ecological sustainability
Empirical trends of environmental usage
Economics and sustainability
Labor and sustainability
Quality of life and happiness
Taxes and governance
Political instruments and measures

The courses this semester are primarily based in the social sciences, i.e. management and principles of sustainable development. Next semester, the department is offering some more technical case studies that I hope to participate in.