Courses - 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
Gewässerqualitätsmanagement für siedlungswasserwirtschaftliche Nutzungen

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
Nachhaltige Entwicklung I - Grundlagen nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens

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 technical case study classes that I hope to take.