The Environmentally Sustainable University

Course Code: MMAHEM_19

Masters Level Module

This two-and-a half-day residential module aims to offer an understanding of the dimensions of environmental sustainability as they relate to university management concerns. The module will examine how the built environment of the sustainable university can be planned and managed with a view to achieving the zero- (or even negative-) carbon university. It will go on to consider the types of organisational change needed to achieve the sustainable university, involving changing the way people work in, and away from, the university, transport use, and other matters. Sustainability as a curriculum theme will be touched on, as this will have organisational implications (strategy, staffing, marketing, for example). Sustainability can be presented as a positive aspect of the student experience, but there will be negative aspects to be managed also if, for example, building use is to be maximised and transport use minimised. There are ethical aspects also to be considered: to what extent should universities show leadership to other organisations – and can they afford to do so?

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