Course: Environmental Management

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Course title Environmental Management
Course code FES/HEM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 15
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tetřevová Liběna, prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Sustainable development, sustainable business and social responsibility of organizations. Business approaches to environmental protection. Environmental aspects and impacts of business activities, products and services. Environmental management and its application in the enterprise. Standards for environmental management systems, status of standardization of environmental management systems. Economic-environmental efficiency, environmental accounting and reporting, sustainable accounting and reporting. Modeling solutions to environmental problems.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to give students an overview of the latest knowledge in the field of environmental managemen in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Student will have knowledge in the wide connections of environmental management implementation and function in companies and in environmental management elements in the different backrounds and management levels.
Prerequisites
Advanced knowledge of macro- and microeconomics and management.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment

The examination is granted upon successful completion of the seminar paper in the extent of 10 pages conceived as a source for the thesis or paper.
Recommended literature
  • BINI, L.; BELLUCCI, M. Integrated sustainability reporting: linking environmental and social information to value creation processes. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-24956-4.
  • DE VILLIERS, C.; MAROUN, W. (ed.). Sustainability accounting and integrated reporting. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-09141-2.
  • DENTCH, M. P. The ISO 14001:2015 implementation handbook: using the process approach to build an environmental management system. Milwaukee: ASQ Quality Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-87389-929-1.
  • FENG, K.; HUBACEK, K.; YU, Y. Local consumption and global environmental impacts: accounting, trade-offs and sustainability. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-82606-9.
  • NORD, L. O.; BOLLAND, O. Carbon dioxide emission management in power generation. Weinheim: Wiley, 2020. ISBN 978-3-527-34753-7.
  • PROKOP, V.; STEJSKAL, J.; HORBACH, J.; GERSTLBERGER, W. (eds.). Business models for the circular economy: a European perspective. Cham: Springer, 2022. ISBN 978-3-031-08312-9.
  • TETŘEVOVÁ, L. A KOL. Společenská odpovědnost firem společensky citlivých odvětví. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2017.
  • TETŘEVOVÁ, L.; MIDTTUN, A. a kol. Moderní trendy společenské odpovědnosti firem, univerzit a municipalit: Příklady dobré praxe z České republiky a Norska. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7560-418-7.


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