Licenciatura em Finanças
Plano Curricular Finanças
Environmental sustainability for businesses (ESB)
UC Competência
Environmental sustainability for businesses(Ciências Sociais)UC Execução
Environmental sustainability for businesses (2020/2021 - Semestre 1)Environmental sustainability for businesses (2019/2020 - Semestre 1)
Environmental sustainability for businesses (2018/2019 - Semestre 1)
Environmental sustainability for businesses (2017/2018 - Semestre 1)
Contextos
Grupo: Finanças > 1º Ciclo > Unidades Curriculares Optativas
Período: 3 Ano, 1 Semestre
Peso
4.0 (para cálculo da média)
Objectivos
Grounded in the mission of the ISEG, this course aims to educate students on environmental sustainability, a fundamental career requirement to enable them to create a better world.
The program framework is based on the environmental sustainability work areas that a chief sustainability officer has to address. Concepts, tools and practices of sustainability management, in particular, environmental issues will be discussed. Students should:
- Understand key environmental issues in companies: Improve understanding of key environmental and social issues related to the global (business) world;
- Recognize sustainability as business responsibility: Consider sustainability issues as regular businesses activities and strategic decisions;
- Identify the challenges of companies: Understand the set of areas and activities that are object of chief sustainability officer.
Programa
The programme is based on the multiple areas of work that a manager has to address.
Global concepts of sustainability and environment; national and international reference policies/regulations; introduction to environmental sustainability tools; case studies of environmental and sustainable intervention areas in companies.
Concepts: strong and weak sustainability, natural capital, introduction to circular economy and dematerialization, and environmental and social externalities of companies.
Overview of different sustainability and environmental related tools, e.g. energy efficiency, carbon inventory, green value chain management, supplier involvement and environmental life cycle assessment.
Areas of intervention in companies in case study mode: sustainable business models; materiality assessment and stakeholder involvement; environmental management; sustainable and ecological marketing; ecosystem services; sustainability reporting; sustainable assessment and investments.
Metodologia de avaliação
The assessment is based on:
- An essay developed at classes (80%).
- The participation of the students during the sessions (20%). Class attendance is recommended, and absences will affect the participation grade.
Bibliografia
Principal
Evaluating environmental and social performance of large Portuguese companies: a balanced scorecard approach. Business Strategy and the Environment
Idalina Dias Sardinha, Lucas Reijnders
2005
John Wiley & Sons Inc, Vol. 14, p. 73-91.
Towards the Sustainable Corporation: Win-Win-Win Business Strategies for Sustainable Development
John Elkington
1994
California Management Review, Vol. 36 No. 2, Winter 1994; pp. 90-100
The Role of Corporations in Achieving Ecological Sustainability
Paul Shrivastava
1995
The Academy of Management Review Vol. 20, No. 4, Oct., 1995, pp. 936-960.
An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management: Striving for Sustainability
Stefan Schaltegger, Roger Burritt, Holger Petersen
2003
Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 14 Iss: 4, pp.541 - 54
Carroll?s pyramid of CSR: taking another look
Carroll, A.B.
2016
Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility 1, 3.
Secundária
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