Environmental and Natural Resource Management

Aims of the course

1. To provide students with the knowledge about ethics and corporate social responsibility from ecological perspective, environmental orientation and sustainable development, motives for environmental activities, environmental company performance, different views of environmental management systems, and environmental management in different stages of organizational life-cycle.
2. To teach students how to use and critically evaluate the literature in the field of environmental and natural resource management, link the acquired knowledge with current practical problems and enable them for further professional and research work in the field of environmental and natural resource management.
3. To help students actually understand the discussed theoretical concepts, methodological tools and practical examples, so that they can better implement them in practice and become, with some additional work experience, top experts in the field of environmental and natural resource management.

Course syllabus

1. Ethics and corporate social responsibility from ecological perspective
2. Environmental orientation vs. sustainable development
3. Motives for environmental activities in companies
4. Environmental company performance
5. Environmental management systems: comparison among different approaches/models
6. Environmental management in different stages of organizational life-cycle
7. Examples from business practice

Course director(s)