Sustainable Business Practice (30 credits)
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
- Convenor: Simon Pooley
- Assessment: a 3500-word essay (50%) and 2500-word report (50%)
Module description
This module provides an overview of the evolution of business management and strategy with regard to climate change.
Indicative MODULE CONTENT
- Definitions, frameworks and business models for sustainability
- Business and regulation
- Role of partnerships and NGOs
- Sustainability in supply chains and value chains
- Resource use and the circular economy
- Environmental management and assessment tools
- Environmental reporting and communication (including data, verification, assurance)
- Change management for a sustainable business
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will have:
- critically discussed definitions, frameworks and business models for sustainability with reference for their environmental, social and economic dimensions
- examined risks and opportunities associated with sustainable business, including those linked to regulations, partnerships supply chains and value chains
- evaluated approaches to environmental reporting and communication taken by existing organisations
- described the steps towards implementation of an environmental management system and outlined the associated costs and benefits to the host organisation
- analysed major tools, techniques, systems and practices used to measure and improve environmental sustainability performance.