The open course “Human Activities and Vulnerability of Marine Ecosystems” guides participants through the Ecosystem-Based Approach framework to address the management of marine ecosystems, their sustainability and the benefits they bring to society.
To do so, it first introduces participants to specialised techniques to characterise the main human needs, the activities carried out by society to meet them, and the consequences of these actions for the environment and society. Building on that knowledge, the course explains tools to identify strategies to address environmental deficiencies, with the aim of ensuring sustainability and securing sufficient ecosystem benefits.
This course is part of the micro-credential Sustainable Marine Ecosystems by the University of Cantabria comprised by four courses. These MOOCs have been developed under the coordination of IHCantabria, the Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the University of Cantabria, in the framework of TRASMARES Erasmus+ Project (Specialized Training on Applied tools for Sustainable Marine Ecosystems).
