Environmental Management in the 21st Century

Introduction

"Environmental Management in 21st Century" is about coordinating environmental efforts - investigating problems, developing solutions, and working in multi-disciplinary teams - to address the environmental crises that are plaguing the world. This includes numerous areas, from global warming to deforestation, soil erosion to landfills.

This course offers the knowledge and skills required by National governments, local authorities, industrial companies, commercial enterprises, conservation agencies as well as environmental consultancies.

Objectives

• To understand environmental management system (EMS) definitions, concepts, and guidelines and requirements of the ISO 14001 standard.
• To understand the stages of EMS implementation, learn best practice techniques, apply environmental-management principles to achieve continual improvement in an organization.
• To provide a basic understanding of various tools and techniques such as life cycle assessment, environmental audits, evaluation of environmental performance for environmental decision-making.

Program Outline

1. Global Environmental Issues, Solutions and Skills
• Introduces global environmental issues alongside both international and national environmental management techniques to cope with a changing planet.
2. Environmental Management and Auditing
• Develops the theme of Environmental Management from Environmental Audits through to formalised frameworks of management systems which, somewhat like quality systems, record, monitor and report a company's environmental performance.
3. Environmental Law
• Provide a basis for an informed understanding of the law relating to the environment. Emphasis will be placed upon the role of law in preserving and protecting the environment, and upon evaluation of control, the part played by domestic courts in resolving the often conflicting societal interests involved in environmental protection and its implementation.
4. Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon
• Examines the consequences of climate change for businesses and society, with consideration given to issues of the sustainable growth of low carbon economies. These consequences - physical effects, social responses, and technology-policy debates - will be examined from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, with an emphasis on sources of renewable energy and carbon management.
5. Environmental Monitoring
• The analysis of soil, air, water and foodstuff samples is essential in maintaining a healthy environment and people acting as regulators or as environmental managers in industry or consultancies will from time to time be required to collect and submit for analysis samples of various environmental media.
6. Pollution Control & Modelling
• Teaches the scientific basis for the understanding of the control measures which will be applied to various processes and an understanding of how the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control regime will operate in practice. Air and water pollution control technologies are explored alongside issues such as noise and land conditioning.
7. Contaminated Land
• The implications of contaminated land from both an environmental and a legal point of view are now in the public eye and this subject is seen as a growth area. The Environmental Protection Act 1990 and, in particular the recent introduction of Part IIA, opened the door to an enormous interest from both industry and financial institutions.
8. Ecological Management and Assessment
• An understanding of the theory and practice of ecological management, underpinned by the principles of ecological assessment and countryside regulation, is a valuable addition to the skills package of a modern environmental professional.
9. Environmental Impact Assessment
• The role of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as a process for identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the biophysical, social and other relevant effects of a proposed development prior to major construction decisions being taken will be explored.
10. Regulation, Monitoring & Assessment of Water Pollution
• Aims to provide participants with a broad perspective on the regulation, monitoring and assessment of water pollution; a major area of concern in relation to the delivery of point and non-point pollutants which affect the environment.
11. Question and Answer Session
• Further clarifications if any confusion exist among participants in any topics

Program Duration

10 Days (2 weeks)