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Environmental management and organisations
It is believed that environmental management requires action at all levels and by organisations of all types and sizes. However it is not always clear what we mean by environmental management and the role that organisations do and could play. This free course, explores the different interpretations and viewpoints involved by using system thinking to provide a framework with which to better understand environmental management and organisations.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- provide definitions of environment, management, systems and organisations in relation to environmental management
- describe organisations as systems and their role in environmental management
- understand the usefulness of systems thinking in relation to environmental management in organisations
- explain how environmental management can be used as environmental protection and how organisations can define and manage risk.
First Published: 03/03/2014
Updated: 23/11/2018
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1) From an academic perspective one can readily understand the author's emphasis on defining nomenclature. However, it struck me that too much of the first 10 chapters (barring chapter 7) was spent on this. Indeed, the generic nature of chapters 4, 8 and 9 would seem to warrant their inclusion in a separate course; this could then be referenced along with all of the other supporting courses that were mentioned.
2) Whilst it is fairly common for OpenLearn courses to suffer from the absence of a recent periodic review, most would surely be surprised that the 23/11/2018 update had not located the very significant number of broken URLs (11.2 being a case in point). Even more importantly, the environmental management subject matter has progressed sufficiently since 03/03/2014 and 23/11/2018 to warrant more substantive updates. For example, can anyone locate any post-2013 references - 15.2 "in the UK (and other EU member states)" - being a case in point)?