The Implementation of the SD Programs for Management …
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During seminars, students report their findings of the legislative and practical
aspects of environmental management. To study these aspects, the well-known
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach was used. This approach helps students
find causal relations between different phenomena, think critically and solve complex
problems they will encounter in their lives (Boud and Feletti 2013).
Classes using computers are directed on analysis of statistical data for different
Sustainable Development Goals in Belarus, Russia and some other European countries. Students must find data not from statistical compilations, but from different
reports and articles, among others sources.
3 Results: Structure of “Environmental Management
in EU Course and MOOC”
Based on the steps indicated above, the developed course includes the following
topics: Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, Global environmental issues, Indicator of Sustainable Development, International laws, International standards, Environmental monitoring, Development of Environmental
management systems, Natural resource accounting, Waste management, and Environmental assessment. All topics are detailed in the following sections, indicating
the theoretical relevance of their consideration in the course.
This course structure was suggested for development in application form of Jean
Monnet Module and was approved for implementation. Course topics correspond to
a cyclical model of environmental management (Zenchanka and Batyrev 2011)—
from problems definition to decision making—and are aimed at developing students’
systemic and critical thinking.
3.1 Sustainable Development and Environmental
Management
The main idea of this section is to present an introduction to Environmental management (EM) which is an integral part of the sustainable development (SD) concept,
which arose in the middle of the twentieth century and was presented in reports of
the Club of Rome and different World Summits. At the beginning stage, the reports
of Forrester (1971) “World Dynamics” and Meadows et al. (1972) “The Limit of
Growth” were the most remarkable. These reports showed the existence of limits for
planetary development and launched numerous publications on sustainable development. Then Meadows et al. (2004) presented the results of a new research in which
they sadly concluded that humanity continues to move along the undesirable trajectory of development. Models used in these books consider the planet as a whole,
without taking into account the economic development of regions.
505
During seminars, students report their findings of the legislative and practical
aspects of environmental management. To study these aspects, the well-known
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach was used. This approach helps students
find causal relations between different phenomena, think critically and solve complex
problems they will encounter in their lives (Boud and Feletti 2013).
Classes using computers are directed on analysis of statistical data for different
Sustainable Development Goals in Belarus, Russia and some other European countries. Students must find data not from statistical compilations, but from different
reports and articles, among others sources.
3 Results: Structure of “Environmental Management
in EU Course and MOOC”
Based on the steps indicated above, the developed course includes the following
topics: Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, Global environmental issues, Indicator of Sustainable Development, International laws, International standards, Environmental monitoring, Development of Environmental
management systems, Natural resource accounting, Waste management, and Environmental assessment. All topics are detailed in the following sections, indicating
the theoretical relevance of their consideration in the course.
This course structure was suggested for development in application form of Jean
Monnet Module and was approved for implementation. Course topics correspond to
a cyclical model of environmental management (Zenchanka and Batyrev 2011)—
from problems definition to decision making—and are aimed at developing students’
systemic and critical thinking.
3.1 Sustainable Development and Environmental
Management
The main idea of this section is to present an introduction to Environmental management (EM) which is an integral part of the sustainable development (SD) concept,
which arose in the middle of the twentieth century and was presented in reports of
the Club of Rome and different World Summits. At the beginning stage, the reports
of Forrester (1971) “World Dynamics” and Meadows et al. (1972) “The Limit of
Growth” were the most remarkable. These reports showed the existence of limits for
planetary development and launched numerous publications on sustainable development. Then Meadows et al. (2004) presented the results of a new research in which
they sadly concluded that humanity continues to move along the undesirable trajectory of development. Models used in these books consider the planet as a whole,
without taking into account the economic development of regions.