It is believed that environmental management requires action at all levels and by organisations of all types and sizes. However it is not always clear what we mean by environmental management and the role that organisations do and could play. This free course, explores the different interpretations and viewpoints involved by using system thinking to provide a framework with which to better understand environmental management and organisations.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Defining environment
- 1 Defining environment
- 1.1 ‘The environment’
- 1.2 Natural or human?
- 1.3 Whose environment?
- 2 Defining management
- 2 Defining management
- 3 Defining environmental management
- 3 Defining environmental management
- 4 Defining systems
- 4 Defining systems
- 4.1 What are systems?
- 4.2 System elements
- 4.3 Perspective
- 4.4 Systems diagrams
- 5 Systems and environmental management
- 5 Systems and environmental management
- 6 Environmental milestones
- 6 Environmental milestones
- 7 DDT
- 7 DDT
- 8 Introducing organisations
- 8 Introducing organisations
- 8.1 Reflecting on ‘organisation’
- 8.2 Defining ‘organisation’
- 8.3 Purpose
- 8.4 Structure
- 8.4.1 Hierarchies
- 8.4.2 Alternative structures
- 8.5 Processes
- 9 Organisation as a system
- 9 Organisation as a system
- 9.1 The UN as a system
- 9.2 Purpose and boundary
- 10 Beyond the organisation
- 10 Beyond the organisation
- 10.1 System environment
- 10.2 Organisation networks
- 11 Reflecting on organisations and environment
- 11 Reflecting on organisations and environment
- 11.1 Inputs and outputs
- 11.1.1 Water use
- 11.1.2 Waste production
- 11.2 Solving impacts?
- 11.3 Problem solved or situation managed?
- 12 Framing in environmental management
- 12 Framing in environmental management
- 12.1 Health and safety
- 12.2 Public health
- 12.3 Environmental protection
- 13 Environmental disasters
- 13 Environmental disasters
- 14 Risk management
- 14 Risk management
- 14.1 Identifying risk
- 14.2 Organisations and risk
- 15 Voluntary and compulsory approaches
- 15 Voluntary and compulsory approaches
- 15.1 Voluntary approaches
- 15.1.1 Corporate sustainability reporting
- 15.1.2 Drivers
- 15.2 Compulsory approaches
- 15.2.1 European directives
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
