Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Offered By: The Open University via OpenLearn
Course Description
Overview
Do you want to discover more about how organisations innovate for environmental management? This free course, Organisations, environmental management and innovation, focuses on the innovations organisations are developing or using to manage contemporary environmental issues. It also covers how organisations are innovating thinking about environmental management.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Reflecting on organisations
- 1 Reflecting on organisations
- 1.1 Organisations and purpose
- 1.2 Multiple perspectives
- 1.3 Reflecting on innovation
- 1.4 Defining innovation
- 1.5 Innovation = creativity?
- 1.6 Categories of innovation
- 1.7 Innovation and the S-curve
- 1.8 Different perspectives
- 1.9 Wrong thing righter?
- 1.10 Environmental innovation
- 1.11 Eco-innovation
- 1.12 Business models
- 1.13 System eco-innovation
- 1.14 Measuring eco-innovation
- 1.15 Drivers of eco-innovation
- 1.16 Barriers to eco-innovation
- 1.17 Accelerating eco-innovation
- 2 Connecting organisations and environment
- 2 Connecting organisations and environment
- 2.1 Creating environmental issues
- 2.2 Affected by environmental issues
- 2.3 Inputs and outputs
- 2.4 Recognising connections
- 2.5 Externalising the burden
- 2.6 Focusing on impacts
- 2.7 Understanding connections
- 2.8 Environmental Impact Assessment
- 2.9 EIA process
- 2.10 Limitations of EIA
- 2.11 Ecosystem services
- 2.12 The supply chain
- 2.13 Circular economy
- 2.14 Coupled systems
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
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