Environmental Management Strategies

Aim

After having completed this course, the student shall be able to:

• Describe important strategies, concepts, methods and other ”parts” of organizations’ environmental and sustainability management, clarify how they are related to one another, and why they are important from a company and societal perspective,
• Describe the environmental and sustainability management as mentioned above, but also how the design and appliance of the parts affects the effectiveness of the environmental and sustainability efforts. This especially goes for common components of systems for management of environmental and sustainability issues within companies,
• Describe important requirements, drivers and barriers for companies’, and partially other organizations’, environmental and sustainability management, and how these can be handled,
• Apply the knowledge above in making a critical analysis, on an overall level, of companies’/organizations’ chosen strategies and other ways of managing issues concerning the environment and sustainability. For example, in this analysis the students shall take environmental impact, internal conditions, and the requirements and possibilities on the market into account, and
• To propose measures for companies/organizations concerning their environmental and sustainability management.

Content

Students shall develop knowledge of essential parts of organizations’ environmental and sustainability management, focusing on companies. Further on, the course deals with important societal conditions that affect environmental and sustainability issues and how to handle them. For example, this includes means of control and environmental economics. Above all, the course will help to gain knowledge of strategies and tools that are important concerning environmental and sustainability management, and knowledge of essential conditions and possibilities concerning commercial environmental and sustainability efforts.

Corporate Environmental Management: corporate environmental strategies, commercial environmental management, environmental marketing, important concepts and methods in modern environmental and sustainability management, sustainable development,environmental and sustainability governance incl environmental legislation,environmental economics, environmental ethics, environmental management systems, environmental auditing, environmental communication.