Postgraduate - UnitBTX5100 - Corporate environmental responsibility

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2013 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Business Law and Taxation
Offered	Not offered in 2013
Coordinator(s)	Mr Wayne Gumley

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:

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

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Wayne Gumley

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prohibitions

BTX4100