Finance & Insurance
FINA 2720: Sustainability in the Business Environment
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Examines a variety of environmental problems, including global warming, use and disposal of toxic substances, and depletion of natural resources such as water and petroleum.
- Many of these problems arise because these are resources that are available to all and so their overuse is an externality that is not included in manufacturing costs.
- Businesses have been involved in both identifying sustainability issues in their individual organizations and providing a variety of innovative solutions.
- Uses a combination of readings and case analyses to assesses how both government regulations—such as taxes, subsidies, building codes, prohibitions of use—and business solutions—including zero emissions, green design, producer take-back, life cycle assessment, and corporate environmental reporting—address these problems.
Examines a variety of environmental problems, including global warming, use and disposal of toxic substances, and depletion of natural resources such as water and petroleum. Show more.