102-0327-01L  Implementation of Environmental and Other Sustainability Goals

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Abstract	This course teaches approaches and methods to identify, assess and manage environmental (mainly) and societal (to some extent) aspects in organisations. The course contains an introduction to the global ISO 14001 standard on environmental management, into the concept of ecobalance of organisations, and supply chain management, and a general view on how such approaches fit into a management system.
Learning objective	Students will learn to - describe key sustainability problems of the current economic system and measuring units. - describe the management system of an organisation and how to develop a sustainability orientation - discuss approaches to measure environmental performance of an organisation, including 'organisational LCA' (Ecobalance) - explain the pros and cons of single score environmental assessment methods - apply life cycle costing - interpret stakeholder relations of an organisation - (if time allows) describe sustainable supply chain management and stakeholder management
Content	- Sustainability problems of the current economic system and its measuring units; - The structure of a management system, and elements to integrate environmental management (ISO 14001) and social management (SA8000), especially into strategy development, planning, controlling and communication; - Sustainability Opportunities and Innovation for companies - The concept of 'continuous Improvement', and its application to environmental management - Life Cycle Costing, as part of Life Cycle Management - environmental performance measurement of an organisation, including 'organisational LCA' (Ecobalance), incl. practical examples of companies - single score environmental assessment methods, with a focus on the 'ecopoints' method - stakeholder management and sustainability oriented communication - an intro into sustainability issues of supply chain management Students will get small homework excercises to apply the course topics and methods issues.
Lecture notes	Documents will be available on Ilias
Literature	Will be made available.
Prerequisites / Notice	This course is meant for any interested student. (Students of ESD Ecological Systems Design should choose the combined "AESEA" course (102-0307-01), which is specifically offered and mandatory for their module and includes this course. Basic knowledge of environmental assessment tools is a prerequisite for this class. Students who have not yet had classwork in this topic will profit more from this course after reading an appropriate textbook before or at the beginning of this course, e.g. Jolliet, O et al. (2016). Environmental Life Cycle Assessment. CRC Press, Boca Raton - London - New York. ISBN 978-1-4398-8766-0 (Chapters 2-5.2).
Competencies	Subject-specific Competencies Concepts and Theories assessed Method-specific Competencies Analytical Competencies assessed Decision-making fostered Problem-solving fostered Social Competencies Communication assessed Cooperation and Teamwork fostered Self-presentation and Social Influence fostered Negotiation fostered Personal Competencies Critical Thinking fostered Self-awareness and Self-reflection fostered

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Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)
Performance assessment as a semester course
ECTS credits	2 credits
Examiners	A. E. Braunschweig
Type	session examination
Language of examination	English
Repetition	The performance assessment is offered every session. Repetition possible without re-enrolling for the course unit.
Mode of examination	oral 25 minutes
Additional information on mode of examination	The exam will be on the course content covered in the course and in the case studies. It will be in the form of a talk. Students don't have to bring anything to the exam. Optional learning tasks in form of short exercises, distributed evenly over the semester, are offered. If 4 out of 5 exercises are solved in a meaningful and comprehensive way, a bonus of 0.25 grading points is added to the final course unit grade. This bonus expires as soon as the course is offered again.
This information can be updated until the beginning of the semester; information on the examination timetable is binding.

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Programme	Section	Type
Integrated Building Systems Master	Specialised Courses	W