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.

Course Curriculum

Introduction – Environmental management and organisations 00:05:00
1 Defining Environment 00:00:00
1.1 ‘The Environment’ 00:00:00
1.2 Natural or Human 00:00:00
1.3 Whose Environment 00:00:00
2 Defining Management 00:00:00
3 Defining Environmental Management 00:00:00
4 Defining Systems 00:00:00
4.1 What are Systems? 00:00:00
4.2 System Elements 00:00:00
4.3 Perspective 00:00:00
4.4 Systems Diagrams 00:00:00
5 Systems and Environmental Management 00:00:00
6 Environmental Milestones 00:00:00
7 DDT 00:00:00
8 Introducing Organisations 00:00:00
8.1 Reflecting on ‘Organisation’ 00:00:00
8.2 Defining ‘Organisation’ 00:00:00
8.3 Purpose 00:00:00
8.4 Structure 00:00:00
8.4.1 Hierarchies 00:00:00
8.4.2 Alternative Structures 00:00:00
8.5 Processes 00:00:00
9 Organisation as a System 00:00:00
9.1 The UN as a System 00:00:00
9.2 Purpose and Boundary 00:00:00
10 Beyond the Organisation 00:00:00
10.1 System Environment 00:00:00
10.2 Organisation Networks 00:00:00
11 Reflecting on Organisations and Environment 00:00:00
11.1 Inputs and Outputs 00:00:00
11.1.1 Water Use 00:00:00
11.1.2 Waste Production 00:00:00
11.2 Solving Impacts? 00:00:00
11.3 Problem Solved or Situation Managed? 00:00:00
12 Framing in Environmental Management 00:00:00
12.1 Health and Safety 00:00:00
12.2 Public Health 00:00:00
12.3 Environmental Protection 00:00:00
13 Environmental Disasters 00:00:00
14 Risk Management 00:00:00
14.1 Identifying Risk 00:00:00
14.2 Organisations and Risk 00:00:00
15 Voluntary and Compulsory Approaches 00:00:00
15.1 Voluntary Approaches 00:00:00
15.1.1 Corporate Sustainability Reporting 00:00:00
15.1.2 Drivers 00:00:00
15.2 Compulsory Approaches 00:00:00
15.2.1 European Directives 00:00:00
Conclusion 00:00:00

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