13285 (v.5) Eco-Efficiency 503

Area:

Division of Resources and Environment

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

2 x 3 Hours Quarterly

Anti Requisite(s):

306831 (v.3) Eco-Efficiency 603 or any previous version

Syllabus:

Sustainable industry through cleaner production and eco-efficiency. Generic eco-efficiency principles and cleaner production practices and methods. Impacts on productivity and profitability. Historic development of cleaner production, eco-efficiency and related preventive environmental management concepts in different parts of the world. Principles and examples of life cycle design/design for the environment. Environmental management systems and standards (ISO 14001). Students are to attend a three-hour lecture once every three weeks.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

039900 Other Engineering and Related Technologies (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y		Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External