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102-0327-01L 2 Credits MSC D-ARCH
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Implementation of Environmental and Other Sustainability Goals

Lecturers & Examiners: Dr. Arthur Elias Braunschweig
Master students in Environmental Engineering choosing module Ecological Systems Design are not allowed to enrol 102-0327-01 Advanced Environmental Assessments (2KP) as already included in 102-0307-01 Advanced Environmental, Social and Economic Assessments (5KP).
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Last Updated: 2026-06-01 11:31:16

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.

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.

Resources

Lecture Notes

Documents will be available on Ilias

Literature

Will be made available.

General Information

Language
English
Levels
MSC
Frequency
Yearly recurring

Examination

Type
session examination
Mode
oral 25 minutes
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.

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
lecture with exercise Implementation of Environmental and Other Sustainability Goals
  • Tue 08:45-11:30 (HIT H 42)
21 h semesterly

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