This free course, explores the different interpretations and viewpoints involved by using system-thinking to provide a framework with which to better understand environmental management and organisations.

 Learning outcomes:

• Provide definitions of environment, management, systems and organisations in relation to environmental management.
• Describe organisations as systems and their role in environmental management.
• Understand the usefulness of systems thinking in relation to environmental management in organisations.
• Explain how environmental management can be used as environmental protection and how organisations can define and manage risk.