Environment Management

Course Code: MGT 412

Credit Hour: 3

Course Group: Specialization Course: Management

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Introduction: the evolution of environment management, the definition and scope of environment management, problem and opportunities, criticism of environment management, the establishment of environmental management.

Environmental management fundamentals and goal: the implications of human population growth, limits to growth, sustainable development and environmental ethics, environmental management problem and needs.

Environmental management – business and law: Corporate environmental management in the 1990s, Corporate visions of stewardship—a paradigm shift to environmental management ethics?, environmental management and business: the current situation, environmental management and law, the 1969 US national environmental policy Act (NEPA) – ‘environmental magna Carta’, European law and environmental management, international law and environment management , indigenous people and environment law, international law and sovereignty issues.

Standard monitoring modeling eco-auditing and environmental management system: standards, monitoring, surveillance, modeling, environmental auditing, environmental accounting, eco auditing, assessment and evaluation, eco auditing, environmental management system.

Environmental management and economics: the greening of economics, environmental economics, global environmental problems and economics, environmental accounts, evaluating the environment and natural resources, green taxes, green funding, debt, structural adjustment and environment, trade and environmental management.

Environmental risk management, impact, hazard and risk assessment: environmental risk assessment, environmental impact assessment, social impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, predicting future scenarios, hazard and risk assessment, adaptive environmental assessment and management, integrated impact assessment, comprehensive impact assessment.

Environmental management and science: environmental science and environmental management, precautionary principles, a holistic approach to environment management, environmental limit, environmental catastrophes and changes.

Environmental management, environmentalism and social science: growing environmental concern, environmental concern between first and Second World War, environmentalism, and the green movement

Pollution and waste management: history of pollution and waste problem, pollution and waste associated with urbanization, industrial waste and pollution, coping with pollution and waste, agriculture pollution and waste.

Participants in environmental management: groups seeking change, groups with little control, the public, facilitators, controllers, NGOs.

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Recommended books:

C. J. Barrow, Environmental Management: Principles and Practice

C. J. Barrow. Routledge Environmental Management and Development, 2005

Rory Sullivan; Hugh Wyndham. Allen & Unwin, Effective Environmental Management: Principles and Case Studies , by , 2001.

Nath; L. Hens; P. Compton; D. Devuyst. Routledg Environmental Management in Practice: Compartments, Stressors, and Sectors - Vol. 2 , , 1999