55040 CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Year	No.	Offer	Mode	Description			Cred. Pts
98	55040 	S1  	X 	CORP ENVIRON MANAGEMENT   	1.00

Contents

• Staffing
• Rationale
• Synopsis
• Objectives
• Topics
• Recommended References
• Student Workload
• Assessment Details
• Other Requirements

STAFFING:

RATIONALE:

Due   diligence  responsibilities,  driven  by  ethics,  environmental
stewardship  values,  global imperatives and statute  legislation  are
forcing  new  thinking  and creative problem solving  by  managers  in
competitive  edge firms, in government and the not for profit  sector,
and  in  the  defence  services. There  is  a  growing  commitment  to
preventing  losses  occasioned by environmental mismanagement  and  to
halting  the  mortality  and  morbidity  occasioned  by  environmental
pollution and trauma. Standards are called up in legislation and these
must  be  met.  Countries are taking steps to stop the importation  of
pollution  and  sickness  by  writing  standard  contracts  containing
clauses  to  handicap products manufactured by environmentally  faulty
processes.  This  subject aims to introduce managers to  environmental
stewardship  thinking, and to the worldwide environmental  market  and
the opportunities and obligations therein.

SYNOPSIS:

This  subject  introduces  managers to environmental  stewardship  and
environmental  management. Topics covered  may  include,  inter  alia,
corporate environmental strategy, environmental policy and regulation,
investing  in environmental business, case studies in the  application
of  pollution prevention to industrial facilities, convention updates,
and global environmental markets.

OBJECTIVES:

Successful completion of this subject will enable students to:

1. be cognisant of an information and knowledge base on which to
   build good managerial performance in environmental stewardship
   and competitive edge sustainable development activity;
   
2. be aware of the environmental industry and various
   environmental markets and the opportunities they provide;
   
3. be knowledgeable about public policy strategy and regulation
   and corporate strategy which can synergise these;
   
4. gain from case study analysis valuable insights about entering
   global environment markets and entrepreneurial imperatives
   associated with this; and
   
5. possess knowledge and techniques to apply in managing towards
   best environmental practice in industry and commerce.
   

TOPICS:

 Description                                                    Weighting(%)

Introduction                                                          5.00

Issues in corporate environmental management                          20.00

Environmental Law and Public Policy                                   20.00

New  product  development,  venture  capital,  the  stock             20.00
exchange, green marketing, environmental markets, ethical
investment and investing in environmental business

Environmental management systems and ISO 1400                         20.00

New York 97                                                           10.00

Conclusion                                                            5.00

RECOMMENDED REFERENCE MATERIALS:

Boer, Ben et al, 1996 Environmental Outlook, Annandale, Federation
Press.

Knudtson, Peter and Suzuki, David 1992, Wisdom of the Elders, Allen
and Unwin, Toronto.

Mercer, David, 1995 A Question of Balance, Annandale, Federation
Press.

STUDENT WORKLOAD REQUIREMENTS:

	ACTIVITY				HOURS
Directed Study                                	80
Private Study                                 	85

ASSESSMENT DETAILS:

No  *F/S Marks     Due        Description                              Wtg(%)    LBL WWW
1   S    30.00     20/03/98  ASSIGNMENT 1                              30.00     Y
2   S    30.00     24/04/98  ASSIGNMENT 2                              30.00     Y
3   S    40.00     29/05/98  ASSIGNMENT 3                              40.00     Y

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

1    To  obtain a pass in a unit, students must perform satisfactorily
     in overall assignment work and the examination.
2    The due date of an assignment is the date by which a student must
     dispatch  the assignment to the University, and is normally  that
     defined  in the relevant unit specification. The onus is  on  the
     student to provide, if requested, proof of date of dispatch.
3    Students  should organise their affairs to ensure that they  meet
     due  dates  for all assignments. Extensions will be granted  only
     under exceptional extenuating circumstances, normally involving a
     significant medical condition.
4    Students  may  apply  for  an  assignment  extension  either   by
     application  through  DEC before the due  date  or  by  including
     application  with the submitted assignment after  the  due  date.
     Such  applications  should be in writing and  include  supporting
     documentary evidence. The authority for granting extensions rests
     with the relevant Unit Leader.
5    All  assignments  despatched after due dates without  appropriate
     extension  approvals or after approved extension  dates  will  be
     penalised  up to a maximum of 20% of the assigned mark  per  work
     day.
6    Students  must  retain a copy of all assignments  which  must  be
     provided if/when required by the Unit Leader.
7    Unit  weighting's of topics should not be interpreted as applying
     to  the  number  of  marks allocated to questions  testing  those
     topics in an examination paper.