55042 TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Year	No.	Offer	Mode	Description			Cred. Pts
01	55042 	S2  	X 	TOOLS & TECHS FOR SUS DEVL	1.00

Contents

• Staffing
• Rationale
• Synopsis
• Objectives
• Topics
• Texts
• Reference Materials
• Student Workload
• Assessment Details
• Other Requirements

STAFFING:

RATIONALE:

The  green agenda is now firmly established as a political agenda  and
some  four decades after Schumacher, industries and governments alike,
both  national  and international, are learning how to  conduct  their
affairs  through a full cost accounting approach to  the  use  of  non
renewable  resources. International standards and trade protocols  are
emerging   and  these  respectively  attempt  to  promote  sustainable
development  and prevent pollution, and the export and/or reimport  of
pollution  and  unsafe  or polluted products.  Environmental  friendly
products  and  processes are increasingly competitive  edge  products.
Green  investment portfolios are increasingly attractive to  investors
who  see  environmental  liability  risk  as  detracting  from  future
dividend payments. Due diligence legislation is driving a new level of
accountability and business behaviour. The environmental  industry  is
coming  of  age  and  sustainable business,  to  be  effective,  needs
managers  appraised of, and proficient in, green tools and techniques.
This  subject aims to introduce tools and techniques which  will  help
managers capture corporate benefits.

SYNOPSIS:

This subject introduces managers to tools and techniques (both general
and  specific)  that  may  be  used  in  best  practice  environmental
management  and  sustainable development. Topics covered  may  include
environmental impact assessment, environmental auditing, environmental
reporting  and  investor and public relations, management  performance
tracking and measuring systems, product tools: life cycle analysis and
product  stewardship,  full cost accounting, internal  auditoring  and
clean  technology  financing, process tools pollution  prevention  and
waste  minimisation programs, standards and standardisation, voluntary
self  regulation  and beyond compliance, disclosure policy,  measuring
performance,   IUSO   1400,   entering   international   markets   and
capitalising on clean energy markets.

OBJECTIVES:

On successful completion of this unit students will be able
to:

1. be cognisant of various tools and techniques emerging to help
   managers in the stewardship of sustainable development;
   
2. be appraised, through case study, of successful business
   enterprise based on tools and techniques of the kind mentioned
   in 1 above;
   
3. better understand the stewardship ethic and the sophisticated
   and expanding environmental business that it is driving; and
   
4. be competent in the use of some of these tools and techniques.
   

TOPICS:

 Description                                                    Weighting(%)

Introduction                                                          2.00

Tools and techniques for holistic and integrative                     32.00
Green Management, Business Strategy and Performance
Design for the Environment; Environmental Risk
Management; Integrated Sustainable Performance;
Sustainable Performance.

Public Policy Tools: Environmental Impact Assessment                  32.00
and Benefit-Cost Analysis

Private Policy Tools: Financial Tools; Process Tools;                 32.00
Product Tools; Procurement Tools; Measuring Tools;
other Tools.

Conclusion                                                            2.00

TEXT and MATERIALS required to be PURCHASED or accessed:

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the unit and enrich their learning experience.

Nil

STUDENT WORKLOAD REQUIREMENTS:

	ACTIVITY				HOURS
Directed Study                                	80
Private Study                                 	85

ASSESSMENT DETAILS:

No  *F/S Marks     Due        Description                              Wtg(%)    LBL WWW
1   S    20.00     13/08/01  ASSIGNMENT 1                              20.00     Y   N
2   S    60.00     01/10/01  ASSIGNMENT 2                              60.00     Y   N
3   S    20.00     15/10/01  FINAL TEST ITEM                           20.00     Y   N

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.