MN30819: Business and the natural environment
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 12 [equivalent to 24 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 240 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- MN32183 Essay (CWES 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
Having studied the unit, students will be able to:
- Summarise, describe, and critically engage with the main science related to the contemporary environmental debate.
- Understand and evaluate the ethical, economic, and governance issues involved in a variety of environmental policy initiatives, and develop the capacity to critically, actively and creatively contribute to public debates concerned with environmental issues.
- Appreciate the increasing pressures from stakeholders for beyond compliance performance in respect of environmental issues.
- Use their understanding of environmental issues to propose, evaluate, and critique the validity and scope of organisational responses to environmental issues.
- Effectively communicate and defend ideas concerned with environmental issues in writing.
- Understand and apply theories and approaches from multiple disciplinary foundations to environmental issues and challenges.
- Interpret data and evidence regarding environmental issues.
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| Synopsis: | This unit is an introduction to complex interactions between social, political, cultural, economic and ecological factors in the field of environmental management. By doing so, it puts the environmental issues we - and businesses - currently face into context, and provides students with an understanding of the key concepts, theories, and evidence from the wide variety of disciplines that inform effective management of environmental issues.
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| Content: | Environmental issues are increasing salient within society. Human activity has caused or contributed to a range of serious environmental issues including pollution, deforestation, reduction in biodiversity, species extinction, climate change and global warming, and resource depletion. The dramatic increase in society's concern about the state of the environment has led to substantially greater pressure on business to respond to these challenges. The unit is designed to provide students with the knowledge to understand dynamic ecological and environmental processes and their implications for how organisations respond to them.
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| Course availability: |
MN30819 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Chemistry
- USCH-AAB04 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCH-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
- USCH-AKM07 : MSci(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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