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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

312221 (v.2) Accountability and Reporting for Sustainability 602

Area: Sustainable Engineering Group
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 2 x 3 Hours Quarterly
Syllabus: Issues, concepts and practice in evaluating and reporting on the sustainable development performance of organisations with particular emphasis on environmental and social performance. Disclosure of sustainability performance is a rapidly developing practice, as organisations stand up to the challenge of having to meet a steep increase in the demand for transparency on social, environmental and economic performance, from a diversifying group of stakeholders including shareholders, governments, employees, neighbours, business partners and public interest groups. Investigation and development of the business case for external sustainable development reporting, in particular, through the greater use of environmental management accounting. Focuses on evolving guidelines for sustainable development reporting, in particular, from the Global Reporting Initiative. Students attend a three hour lecture once every three weeks.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 050900 Environmental Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

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