Postgraduate - UnitAPG5434 - Sustainability measurement

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Sustainability Environment and Society
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2015 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Wendy Stubbs

Synopsis

As the sustainability agenda deepens, the public and private sectors face growing demands for accountability. This unit extends upon APG5433 and provides students with an overview of sustainability from an applied perspective, with a particular focus on effective measurement. Students examine i) how environmental and social performance interact with financial processes and measurement ii) steps, principles, tools and methodologies and their practical application when accounting for sustainability and its three capital stocks. This includes the how, what, when, where and why of measuring, monitoring, evaluating and reporting relevant sustainability related information.

Outcomes

Upon completing this Unit students will be able to demonstrate:

an understanding why effective measurement is critical in driving the sustainability agenda and support business cases,
develop measurement strategies and indicators,
select the most appropriate measurement tools for a given situation, and
critical insight into how leading organisations are measuring sustainability.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Wendy Stubbs

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Environmental management and sustainability