Hi all,
According to the 'Approval Criteria for Associate Certificate Course in Environmental Management' - revised August 2005, has 3 modules, which are as follows:
1. Environmental Sustainability
2. Environmental Legislation
3. Assessment, Interpretation and Management of Environmental Performance
Taking into consideration the 3 new environmental legislation, i.e.:
1. Environmental Impact Assessment Order
2. Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Order
3. Environmental Pollution Control Order
I would strongly recommend government and private sector stakeholders involved in environmental issues seriously considering the above course. Why?
Module1: Environmental Sustainability has the following topics:
1.1 Earth Natural Systems
1.2 Business and environment
1.3 Effects of releases
1.4 Towards sustainability
Module2: Environmental legislation:
2.1 Instruments for change
2.2 Controls on emissions to the atmosphere
2.3 Controls on the management of contained waste
2.4 Controls on discharges to the water environment
2.5 Issues relating to contaminated land
2.6 Nuisance
2.7 Producer responsibility
2.8 Other relevant legislation
Module 3: Assessment, Interpretation and Management of Environmental Performance:
3.1 Identification and assessment of environmental impacts
3.2 Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
3.3 Monitoring
3.4 Environmental audit
3.5 Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
3.6 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
3.7 Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
3.8 Environmental Risk Assessment
3.9 Pollution Prevention and Control
3.10 Environmental Communication
Besides the direct linkage of certain topics with the upcoming environmental legislation as mentioned above, the certificate course also covers other topics which, in my opinion, allows participants to have a more holistic approach towards environmental management.
In my next blog, I hope I can prepare an example of this the course content can be used to apply to local context in Brunei.
