Hello, and welcome to the course on Global Environmental Management. My name is Henrik Bregnhoj. I'm a chemical engineer, and I've worked with water supply and sanitation in developing countries. I'm now an external associate professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. That is the department that offers this course. I'm going to tell you very shortly about the overview of the structure of the course and the approach that we are using. The course is five weeks. And in the first week we're going to look at the trends, the global trends, like urbanization. For example, here we're standing in my neighborhood in Copenhagen where when I was a young man, I heard that we had about 70 something percent of urbanization in Denmark. I was given the impression that that was the limit, that was the good level between the urban and the rural population. But the urbanization is still continuing and now we are actually 87% urbanized people in Denmark. So urbanization, demographic development, is when, some things we're going to look at the climate changes that is also affecting the environment. We are going to look at sustainable development. Then in the next two weeks, we're going to look at management aspects in Week 2. We'll look at some general management principles and some case studies from different countries. And in Week 3 we will look at utility management, how are different environmental sectors managed in different utilities? And then in the last two weeks, we look at the environmental technologies. First we have in Week 4 about the urban technologies like in the cities where we are here. And in the last week we focus on rural technologies about groundwater, about soils, and so on. So every week the resources will be some lectures, online lectures that is hopefully giving some insight and some inspiration. We have also some literature you can read. But, as you all know, if you really want to learn, you also have to work with things. So we also encourage you to do the activities. Your task in this course is that three of the five weeks, you're going to hand in a short essay, be less than one page, about the topic of that week in a specific geographical location. Apart from writing the essay yourself, you're also expected to assess three of your fellow students' reports. Every week we are going to have a multiple choice quiz testing that you have learned the things. And apart from doing this we're also encouraging you to contribute any experiences, any views, on global environmental management in the discussion forum. And you can read more about the structure of the course in the page on the course description. Welcome to the course.