Suggested preparation: Interest in environmental policy or public planning.
About this course
Examine environmental decision-making through scenarios involving policy, ethics, impact assessment and risk. The collection encourages comparison of interests, evidence and institutions in planning choices.
Topics and lesson examples
- Scenario 1: Federal Environmental Policy-Making
- Scenario 5: Environmental Ethics & the Precautionary Principle
- Scenario 8: Environmental Impact Assessment
- Scenario 10: Societal Risk Assessment
- Scenario 14: Relying on Effective Dispute Resolution
Course at a glance
| Provider | MIT |
|---|---|
| Platform | YouTube · MIT OpenCourseWare |
| Access | Free Video |
| Level | Intermediate — WikiFree study-level assessment |
| Language | English |
| Available lessons | 17 |
| Video duration | 1h 52m · self-paced |
| Details checked | 10 October 2026 |
Preparation and study approach
Suggested preparation: Interest in environmental policy or public planning.
Follow the available videos in sequence, pausing to summarize the main argument or reconstruct a worked example. Keep a short list of assumptions, unfamiliar terms and questions to revisit. Additional reading, problem solving and practice will take time beyond the listed video duration.
Using this video classroom
Select a lesson from the list, or search for a topic. Previous and Next move through the sequence. You can mark lessons complete; progress is stored in this browser without a WikiFree account.
Free access and course scope
The public MIT OpenCourseWare videos in this classroom are free to watch. This listing provides the available playlist recordings, which may include selected lectures, recitations, demonstrations or supporting discussions rather than every component of the original campus course. Textbooks, equipment, software licenses, supervised labs, graded assignments and instructor feedback are not supplied by WikiFree. No purchase is required to watch the videos or use the note-based study approach above.
WikiFree independently organizes these resources for self-paced study. Watching does not award an MIT certificate, academic credit or admission to MIT.
Video provider and credit: MIT OpenCourseWare on YouTube. WikiFree titles, descriptions and cover artwork are independently prepared.
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Compare course focus, level and study time
| Course | Level | Focus | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| This course — Free MIT Course: Environmental Policy and Planning | Intermediate | Scenario 1: Federal Environmental Policy-Making · Scenario 5: Environmental Ethics & the Precautionary Principle · Scenario 8: Environmental Impact Assessment | 1h 52m of video; practice time is additional |
| Free MIT Course: Community Climate Action and Carbon Reduction | Intermediate | MIT Course: Community Climate Action and Carbon Reduction | 4h 4m of video; practice time is additional |
| Free MIT Course: Energy Markets, Decisions and Public Policy | Intermediate | 1. This Course and The U.S. Energy System · 6. Climate Science and Policy · 12. Organizational Decision-Making: Biodiesel at MIT | 25h 11m of video; practice time is additional |
Provider: MIT. Videos play from the MIT OpenCourseWare channel on YouTube.
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