FAG5132 Sustainability Issues and Ethics in Geodesy
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The course is initiated with a lecture introducing and discussing the UN sustainability goals, the UN resolution on a global geodetic reference frame for sustianable develoopment, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as ethical aspects in geodesy, and other topics of international geodetic relevance at the time of the lecture.
The lecture will be followed by a seminar where the students must present and discuss their own geodetic research in a context of sustainable development and current ethical questions
The objective of the course is:
- to make students aware of how geodesy can contribute to environmental-, technical-, social-, and economical sustainability
- to enable students to demonstrate knowledge of the UN resolution “A Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Development”
- to enable students to demonstrate knowledge of the geodetic contributions to monitoring of the effects of climate change
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