The purpose of the course “Environmental management” is to familiarize students with tools and their use so that students can work to change internal routines and knowledge as well as external relations with other organizations to ensure that the organization they work for is better able to reach its environmental potential.
The objectives of the course “Environmental management” are:
1.To familiarize the student with the basic concept and practice of sustainable development;
2. To be able to acquire skills of develop the ways of reducing and repairing environmental damage;
3. To know the concept of environmental inter dependence, and should be able to place local environmental questions in an international or global setting;
4. To make decision a bout human development with in the natural system and the impact of human activity on the total environment;
5. To understand how decrease the implications of the unequal distribution of resources and of the unequal patterns of hum and evelopment;
6. To know and understand the types of environmental aspects and the irenvironmental impacts, requirements of newly revised ISO 14001:2015 standard, develop and implementan Environmental management system.

Topic 1. Fundamentals of environmental management
1. The essence of environmental management .
2. Environmental management principles .
3. Environmental management system (EMS) .
4. Environmental problems.

Topic 2. Environmental protection
1. Approaches to environmental protection.
2. Environmental agreements.
3. Environmental law.
4. Environmental movement and environmental organizations

Topic 3. Environmental policy
1. The essence of environmental policy.
2. The developing an environmental policy.
3. Procedure of creation of ecological politics.
4. Examples of sample of environmental policy 3

Topic 4. Environmental certification and ecological passport of enterprise
1. The essence of environmental certification.
2. Effects of the implementation of environmental certification.
3. Ecological passport of enterprise.
4. Environmental labeling (Eco-labels).

Topic 5. Environmental expertise
1. Purpose and tasks of environmental examination.
2. Objects, subjects and types of environmental examination.
3. The procedure of conducting of environmental expertise.
4. Content conclusion of environmental expertise and offenses in the field of environmental expertise.

Topic 6. Environmental audit
1. The concept of environmental audit.
2. The typical audit process.
3. Types and benefits of environmental auditing.
4. The auditor's report.

Topic 7. The ISO 14000 model
1. The basic provisions of ISO 14000.
2. Revisions of ISO 14001.
3. Implementing ISO 14001.
4. The consumer and ISO 14000.

Topic 1. Fundamentals of environmental management
Topic 2.Environmental protection
Topic 3. Environmental policy
Topic 4. Environmental certification and ecological passport of enterprise
Topic 5. Environmental expertise
Topic 6. Environmental audit
Topic 7. The ISO 14000 model

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Form of final term control – credit. There are two modules.