Environmental Management University of Lodz

Overview

Programme description

“Ecology” has recently become a buzz word both in science and in practice, yet it is often misinterpreted and misunderstood. This results in non-specialists becoming involved with this problem, often leading to suboptimal decisions being taken regarding the use of environmental resources as well as the directions of development of organisations, which often take the form of “greenwashing”. In such a situation, educating staff professionally prepared to manage organisations while taking into account environmental aspects as an integral part of the overall management system – is a necessity. 

The  Environmental Management program at University of Lodz covers the challenges, problems and anthropogenic threats to the natural environment, provides knowledge about modern environmental protection solutions and the contemporary paradigm of development and management of organisations of various types (business, public sector, social) and different level of complexity, and finally develops the ability to organise activities focused on environmental aspects and use of modern environmental management instruments.

Learning outcomes

The graduates are expected to: 

• have an awareness and knowledge of environmental problems in the organisation; 
• identify environmental aspects in the activities of any organisation;
• make decisions on the directions of development of organisations, recognising the effects on the natural environment (internalisation); 
• design the structure of the organisation in a way that allows optimising consumption of natural resources and reducing the physical pressure on the environment in accordance with the prevention rule; 
• develop and implement an environmental management system integrated with the overall management system of the organisation; select instruments and tools for solving environmental problems in organisations