Postgraduate - UnitBTX5100 - Corporate environmental responsibility

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Synopsis

This unit provides students with an understanding of the range of regulatory responses to environmental degradation and natural resource depletion, with a particular emphasis upon the role of corporations.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

1. identify and analyse the range of regulatory responses to environmental degradation and natural resource depletion
2. identify and analyse the role of corporations under various regulatory strategies, with particular emphasis upon market based strategies.
3. identify and analyse the relative effectiveness of particular regulatory strategies using suitable corporate case studies.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination (2 hours): 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Wayne Gumley

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prohibitions

BTX4100