A general overview of different stages of environmental policy making in industrial regions will be provided. The course will also look at general failures in environmental policy making and analyze the interactions between state and society. Finally the nesting of national environmental policy making in international frameworks is considered. Lectures, studying of literature, writing a paper. This course focuses on environmental management in private enterprises, and environmental policy with regard to private enterprises, especially industry.
Attention is paid to environmental management systems as a management tool for pollution prevention.
Aspects of environmental management systems that are highlighted include waste prevention, implementation of environmental management systems in organisations, and information management. Product chain management and life cycle analysis are presented as means for integrating environmental activities of different corporations. From the sociological point of view, some discussion is devoted to ecological modernisation, currently proposed as a framework for understanding industrial transformation under environmental constraints. Furthermore, students have to make various practical and theoretical assignments. Lectures, literature study and discussion, preparation of a questionnaire, practice interviews, analysis of research data.