Environmental managementLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You understand the role of environmental management as part of organizational management and are familiar with the essential legal requirements for managing the environmental impacts of the organizational activities. You can identify typical environmental management instruments (e.g., ISO 14001 and EMAS) and are able to make use of them in verifying organizational environmental responsibility.

Content

What is environmental management?

What types of legal requirements are there for managing environmental impacts of organizational activities?

What are the commonly used instruments for environmental management?

How can these instruments aid in verifying organizational environmental responsibility?

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
b. assess information sources critically.
c. work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
d. assess operations in customer, user and target groups situations.
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
f. promote teams' goal-oriented operation.
g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.