The course provides an opportunity to reflect on technical and policy-level measures that improve the industry’s environmental performance. Its overall objective is to raise participants’ awareness of solutions that help turn the “green industry” concept into practice and bolster its sustainability. Besides outcomes, there will also be an emphasis on green industry as a transition process that ‘bends the curve’ of conventional development towards green industry objectives over time. Course faculty has been selected based on the balance of academic excellence and practical experience.
Course objectives
- Reflect on the necessary parameters of governance systems (strategies, policies, laws, and regulations) for green industrial development, including cleaner and resource-efficient production. Achieving low carbon and efficient material use paths for industrial development is a key aspect.
- Outline the practical feasibility of technical requirements and policy measures for promoting green industry.
- Discuss how enterprises can successfully tackle key challenges that prevent them from commercializing green industry-related products and services.
- Delineate the essential institutional platforms for promoting the “green industry”. Apart from promoting cleaner and resource-efficient production, such institutions should offer counsel on the development and deployment of economically viable, socially appropriate, and environmentally sustainable green technologies.
- Enable participants to construct and make use of green industry strategies that help meet specific future environmental goals and targets.
Course design
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach starting with a distance learning component which will comprise a number of readings and their moderated, online, discussion in an asynchronous format. Participants will also identify a green economy case from their jurisdiction or organization, and based on that develop a brief case study in a common format. The distance learning component with about 100 participants will help ensure the development of a common terminology and grounding in green industry, resource efficiency, and related concepts. Participation in the online discussions, performance in an online test, and the relevance and quality of their case study, including their proficiency in written and spoken English, will serve as a basis for selecting a subset of ca. 25 participants for the face-to-face component of the course.
The two-week residential component of the course will make use of a dynamic mix of lecture-based and active-learning, participatory methods, customized to meet the needs of an advanced interdisciplinary program. The delivery of the program will be supported by information tools such as a database of key literature and case studies, a discussion forum, and a shared virtual workspace. Participants will focus on understanding and applying environmental and environment-related management methods and tools in support of green industry goals and objectives. Seminars and group discussions will use case studies, peer reviews, and exercises to develop skills and effectiveness in designing and implementing policies, strategies, and projects related to sustainable industrial development.
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