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DCO20212 Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Credit Units: 3
Level: A2
Medium of Instruction: English Course Aims:
This course introduces students to the foundations of environmental issues, current and emerging issues, and their impacts. It involves an interdisciplinary examination of some fundamental environmental problems faced by individuals and communities. This course also aims to cover the environmental justices, social responsibility, and economics, legal and institutional requirements for environmental protection. Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: | 1. | describe the environmental problems, environmental sustainability and environmental quality, and their impacts;
| | 2. | explain the environmental economics, environmental justices, law and legislation, and relate them to environmental policy and planning;
| | 3. | describe the green consumerism and purchasing and relate to the practices in manufacturing; and
| | 4. | use the best practices in corporate social responsibility in green business. |
Keyword Syllabus: | 1. | Global and local environmental problems: Ozone deflection, Climate change, Energy Depletion, Species extenuation, Growth and wealth gap, Resources, Pollution, | | 2. | Environmental sustainability: Limits to growth, Living sustainably, Cultural changes and sustainability, | | 3. | Environmental quality: Climate and life on land, biomes, air, noise, water, solid and hazardous waste, Human impacts on ecosystems, Risk and Toxicology, | | 4. | Environmental economics: Economic systems, Economic growth and external costs, Using economics to improve environmental quality | | 5. | Environmental legislations: Types of environmental laws, Environmental compensation and environmental contract, International law such as (the 1972 United Nations Convention on the Human Environment (UNCHE), the 1987 Brundtland Report, the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), Human right and the environment, Responsibility for environmental damage, Civil liability, Environment pollution control ordinance (1977) and others such as water, noise and air pollution control ordinance. | | 6. | Environmental justice: Current and emerging issues, Principles of environmental justice, Modes of environmental justice analysis, Application to environmental policy and planning, Environmental compensation and environmental contract. | | 7. | Green consumerism and purchasing: Environmental costs and values, Green consumerism, Green production/manufacture, Green products and technology, Green procurement, Green purchasing and current purchasing activities. | | 8. | Corporate social responsibility: The triple bottom line - economic, social and environmental, Standards, Guidelines and Tools, Local and global trends, Best practices in CSR |
Pre-requisites: Nil
Pre-cursors: Nil
Equivalent Courses: Nil
Exclusive Courses: Nil
Course Duration: 1 semester
Teaching and Learning Activities (TLAs)
(Indicative of likely activities and tasks designed to facilitate students’ achievement of the CILOs. Final details will be provided to students in their first week of attendance in this course) | Types of TLAs | Hours per week (if applicable) | | a. Lecture | 2 | | b. Tutorial (short questions, case studies ) | 1 | | c. Essay and case study | 1 (Student’s time), field trip will be arranged to enable students to apply the learnt skills to environmental impacts, policy or green consumerism to supplement their in-class learning. |
Assessment Tasks/Activities
(Indicative of likely activities and tasks designed to assess how well the students achieve the CILOs. Final details will be provided to students in their first week of attendance in this course) | Type of assessment tasks/activities | % | Remarks | | i. Examination | 60% | Short Answer, essay and gobbet on environmental problems, issues, economics, legislation, consumer, and recent advances. | | ii. A mini-project | 20% | to enable students to conduct research on environmental impacts or issues related to policy, environmental justices, and green consumerism | | iii. Coursework | 20% | Essay, application and case studies on environmental issues and impacts, legislation, environmental policy, green consumerism, corporate social responsibility |
Assessment Schedule
Examination (%):60% | Duration (Hrs): 2 | Coursework (%): 40% | Participation (%): Nil | Grading Mode: Standard (A+, A, A-, ..., F) |
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