After completing the module students will be able to:
- understand the principles of life cycle assessment (LCA) and appraise the potential and limitations of the method for their personal field of expertise/work
- correctly plan and do an LCA using common LCA software tools
- critically review and interpret LCA studies and results.

- Teacher: Jan Grenz
- Teacher: Matthias Meier
- Teacher: Franck Cattaneo
- Teacher: Philippe Corvini
- Teacher: Daniel Heine
- Teacher: Lindsey Norgrove
- Teacher: Michaela Zeiter
- Teacher: Silvia Zingg
After completing the module, students will be able to:
• Work with the core principles of sustainable NRM
• carry out a stakeholder analysis, an institutional analysis and apply techniques of behaviour change
• Differentiate between approaches to NRM and relate them to policy interventions/governance measures
• Assess conflict potential over natural resources and devise ways of conflict mediation and dispute settlement (link between NRM and conflict management)
• Express their own opinion, debate with others and moderate discussions

- Teacher: Dominic Blättler
- Teacher: Claude Fischer
- Teacher: François Lefort
- Teacher: Beat Oertli
After completing the module students will be able to:
- relate issues of biodiversity to their specific fields of expertise
- assess the impact of interventions in natural resource management on biodiversity
- design effective measures for maintaining and enhancing biodiversity in their specific field of expertise.

- Teacher: Christine Flury
- Teacher: Alessandra Giuliani
- Teacher: Urs Scheidegger
- Teacher: Andreas Stampfli
- Teacher: Rita Hochstrat
- Teacher: Christoph Hugi
- Teacher: Emmanuel Oertlé
- Teacher: Christoph Studer
- Teacher: Thomas Wintgens