Implementation of Environmental and Other Sustainability Goals

This course teaches approaches and methods to identify, assess and manage environmental (mainly) and societal (to some extent) aspects in organisations. The course contains an introduction to the global ISO 14001 standard on environmental management, into the concept of ecobalance of organisations, and supply chain management, and a general view on how such approaches fit into a management system.

Goals

Students will learn to:

describe key sustainability problems of the current economic system and measuring units.
describe the management system of an organisation and how to develop a sustainability orientation
discuss approaches to measure environmental performance of an organisation, including 'organisational LCA' (Ecobalance)
explain the pros and cons of single score environmental assessment methods
apply life cycle costing
interpret stakeholder relations of an organisation
(if time allows) describe sustainable supply chain management and stakeholder management

Content

Sustainability problems of the current economic system and its measuring units
The structure of a management system, and elements to integrate environmental management (ISO 14001) and social management (SA8000 as well as ISO 26000), especially into strategy development, planning, controlling and communication
Sustainability Opportunities and Innovation
The concept of 'Continuous Improvement'
Life Cycle Costing, Life Cycle Management
Environmental performance measurement of an organisation, including 'organisational LCA' (Ecobalance), based on practical examples of companies and new concepts
Single score env. assessment methods (Swiss ecopoints)
Stakeholder management and sustainability oriented communication
An intro into sustainability issues of supply chain management
Students will get small excercises related to course issues.

General Information

Lecturers: Arthur Braunschweig
Language: English
ECTS: 2
Lecture: Tuesday, 08:45-11:30, bi-weekly, Room: refer to course catalogue
Course material: will be provided on Moodle