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1.50 Credits
This course is designed to fulfill educational needs for enhancing safety and health, a basic necessity in the industrial workplace. The requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), increased employer liability and worker awareness of implications of an unsafe and unhealthy work environment will be discussed. The major elements of hazard evaluation and control, workplace hazard control, worker-machine interaction, occupational injury and diseases, and process alterations are examples of topics covered in this course. 1. 500 Credit Hours 1. 500 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with the environmental manager's duties in permitting, reporting, record-keeping, and sampling. It emphasizes a systematic approach to identifying a source's obligations with respect to each regulated media and activity and developing appropriate response. Obligations under United States environmental laws and their relationship to state and local laws are considered as a model for analysis and response. The role of environmental manager is examined through extensive use of experienced environmental managers as guest lecturers, coupled with a laboratory visit, lectures by the teacher, course materials, research assignments on the computer, and a final project where the course lessons are applied. 3. 000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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1.50 Credits
This course reviews the carbon economy, including the reasons for the emergence of carbon management strategies in International and National Government Policy, Business Planning and Personal Initiatives related to Non-profit Organizations. Areas covered include: Climate Change and its relationship to carbon manangement, the Kyoto Protocal, voluntary carbon management programs, sequestration and offsets, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), carbon auditing at the operational level, and calculating carbon footprints. 1. 500 Credit Hours 1. 500 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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1.50 Credits
The underlying theme of the course is to provide an overview of the modeling market process while focusing on the environmental problems and environmental quality. Course examines modeling solutions to environmental problems focusing on the command and control approaches, economic implication of using standards, and assessment of marginal social costs and benefits of abatement. Economic solution to environmental problems is discussed using a market approach focusing on modeling of emission charges and pollution permit trading systems and practices. Procedures used to measure benefits and costs for environmental decision making such as economic analysis of the clean air act, global warming control policies, improvement of waste quality, clean water act and management of solid and hazardous waste and waste sites are discussed. 1. 500 Credit Hours 1. 500 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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1.50 Credits
This course provides an overview of the primary elements involved with the global use of water resources focusing on issuses such as irrigation, water supply system management, sanitation, flood control, and hydropower. An analysis of the underlying issues associated with effective use and adoption of water policies including implementation, operation, and potential social problems are presented and environmental concerns with effective mamagement of water resources are discussed. Methods and techniques used for design and adoption of a comprehensive policy framework that facilitate the consideration of relationships between the ecosystem and socioeconomic activities, and the treatment of water as an economic good is presented. The analysis focuses on social, environmental, and economic objectives. 1. 500 Credit Hours 1. 500 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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3.00 Credits
The increasing complexity of environmental problems warrants an integrated multidisciplinary approach to developing management strategies for local, regional and global sustainability. This course provides an analysis of significant environmental issues currently facing multinational corporations and government agencies. Representative topics include macro sustainable development; pollution prevention; urban sprawl and brown fields; resource efficiency; and global climate change. 3. 000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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1.50 Credits
Sustainable communities are defined as places that meet the diverse needs of existing and future residents, are sensitive to their environment, and contribute to a high quality of life. This course examines the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability in communities -- large and small, urban and rural. Sustainability principles, policies, and programs that encourage and guide community initiative are analyzed. Case studies on a variety of topics from community energy, to green development, to sustainable business are studied and compared. Innovative strategies are research for creating communities that are more environmentally sound, economically prosperous, and socially equitable. Some of the major themes explored in the context of sustainable communities are indicators of sustainability, green building, urban sprawl, air quality, water efficiency, climate change, sustainable energy and transportation policies, security and disaster planning and demographic trends. 1. 500 Credit Hours 1. 500 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the linkage of energy, environmental and economic issues. The impact of energy supply and end-use on human well-being and the ecosystem is covered. It also includes a comprehensive approach to the resolution of resource, technical, economic, strategic, environmental, socio-and geopolitical problems of the energy industries. In addition, pathways to a sustainable global energy system are presented. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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1.50 Credits
This course introduces students to the basics of managerial communications - from developing and making effective presentations to building strategies to engage internal audiences and external stakeholders in achieving the organization's environmental objectives. Surveys both traditional and new viral methods of communicating via the web. Course also emphasizes effective use of communications in the regulatory environment as well as for impacting public policy. Emphasis will also be placed on Corporate Social Responsibility in terms of clarity and transparency to the stakeholders and the community. 1. 500 Credit Hours 1. 500 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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1.50 Credits
The underlying theme of the course is to provide an overview of the modeling market process while focusing on the environmental problems and environmental quality. Course examines modeling solutions to environmental problems focusing on the command and control approaches, economic implication of using standards, and assessment of marginal social costs and benefits of abatement. Economic solution to environmental problems is discussed using a market approach focusing on modeling of emission charges and pollution permit trading systems and practices. Procedures used to measure benefits and costs for environmental decision making such as economic analysis of the clean air act, global warming control policies, improvement of water quality, clean waste act and management of solid and hazardous waste and waste sites are discussed. 1. 500 Credit Hours 1. 500 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Law, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Stuart School of Business College Business Administration Department
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