The general objective of the environmental management course is for graduates to gain knowledge of and insight into key concepts and principles ruling the management strategies at businesses towards environmental and social sustainability.
Specific learning objectives:
- To identify individual management tools/frameworks and/or combination of them that can be recommended for specific sustainability challenges within businesses
- To evaluate the Corporate Social Responsibility report of a company
- To apply the framework of Environmental Management Systems to a case study according to the Sheldon & Yoxon's Guide
- To apply through case studies some of the management tools/frameworks that support organizational change to deliver environmental and social sustainability
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1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction to motivations to include environmental and social concerns into organizational strategies
1.2 Operations management review
2. Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
2.1 EMS and ISO14001
2.2 EMS and Plan stage
2.3 Do-Check-Act stages
3. Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)
3.1 Introduction to social enterprises and CSR
3.2 CSR and digitalization
4. Social Life Cycle Analysis
4.1 Theory of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
4.2 Fundaments of Social Life cycle analysis and examples
5. Circular Economy (CE)
5.1 Theoretical frameworks of CE
5.2 Examples of CE at multilevel
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