Environmental Management At University Of Ghana
This course aims to create awareness and empower students with both traditional business skills and
training specific to the environmental challenges that most businesses face. It also aims at guiding
students to more sustainable ways of using the environment as an aesthetic, business and communal
resource. The course examines topics like the nature, scope and forms of the environment; definition,
concept and constraints of environmental management; hazardous waste generation and disposal;
endangered species protection; environmental management systems; business-environment
relationships; the environment and sustainable development; environmental protection policy and
agencies; ecotourism; the impact of globalisation on the environment; and the role of the private
sector, multinational corporations and NGOs in environmental management.