AUT - Business & Sustainability Paper
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Business & Sustainability Paper
Business and Sustainability - Postgraduate Paper (469020)
An examination of how businesses try to blend environmental and social considerations as well as economic criteria into strategy and practice. Students learn to:
1. Recognise business involvement in the sustainability movement
2. Analyses business situations where environmental, community and sustainability concerns are implicated
3. Devise business strategies and tactics for environmental management, stakeholder engagement and sustainability, including the opportunities and limitations they present
4. Critically evaluate the sustainability challenge facing business
Content:
Key Concepts (sustainability, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, including the business case for sustainable development)
Business Responses to Current Issues (eg. energy, waste and recycling, carbon and climate change)
Guiding Frameworks (eg. regulatory solutions and voluntary codes)
Practical Tools (eg. environmental management systems, environmental and social audits, life-cycle assessment, product labelling and business reporting)
Integrated Business Strategies (eg design for the environment, supply chain collaboration, fair-trade, producer responsibility, stakeholder engagement, strategies for the bottom of the pyramid, environmental and social entrepreneurship, and bioregionalism)
LEARNING & TEACHING STRATEGIES:
Lectures
In-class discussion
Individual reading and study
Case Studies
Guest speakers when available
ASSESSMENT:
Seminar - 30%
Stakeholder Negotiation - 30%
Case studies - 40%