Business and Global Environmental Changes

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course aims to provide a critical analysis of the relationship of global environmental change and its links with business. Innovations in companies and projects have been introduced to deal with global changes, but who are the main actors influencing decisions? How are actions to counter global changes decided? How to build capacity in organizations to deal with these changes? How do we evaluate strategies and projects in the area? What is the role of managers? In this course we will address these and other issues, in order to analyze and develop ideas and tools to work with global environmental issues in business such as depletion of the ozone layer, climate change and loss of biodiversity.