Diploma in Environmental Management

Introduction to Sustainability: Humanity and the Environment

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to the definition of sustainability and how it applies in the modern context, the basic facility before the IPAT equation can be used, the various patterns of human consumption and the major factors which play roles in the understanding of unsustainable impacts.

• Learning Outcomes
• What is Sustainability?
• Human Consumption Patterns and the Rebound Effect
• Lesson Summary

Climate and Global Change

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to how climate processes and principles work, how they are observed by scientists and how these principles by producing greenhouse gases humans are altering the physical properties of the atmosphere in such a way as to increase its ability to retain heat, theoretical prediction of a warming world, measuring temperature, and how to attempt to predict the climate of the future.

• Learning Outcomes
• Climate Processes: External and Internal Controls
• Modern Climate Change
• Climate Projections
• Lesson Summary

Biosphere

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to the biogeochemical cycles, the nature carbon cycle, the nature water cycle, the nature nitrogen cycle and how humans interact with them, biodiversity, ecosystem functions, soil health, soil erosion and soil sustainability.

• Learning Outcomes
• Biogeochemical Cycles and the Flow of Energy in the Earth System
• Biodiversity, Species Loss, and Ecosystem Function
• Soil Profiles and Processes
• Lesson Summary

Physical Resources: Water, Pollution, and Minerals

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to the composition of water on the Earth, forms of water, the water cycle, sources of water, chemistry of water, water pollution, water pollutants, point and non-point sources of pollution, importance of minerals, formation of ore deposits, mining and processing ore and sustainability issues.

• Learning Outcomes
• Water Cycle and Fresh Water Supply
• Water Pollution
• Mineral Resources: Formation, Mining, Environmental Impact
• Lesson Summary

Diploma in Environmental Management - First Assessment

Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.

• Assessment: Diploma in Environmental Management - First Assessment

Environmental and Resource Economics

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to how economists define environmental outcomes, positive and negative externalities, public goods and common-property resources, the measures of value, willingness to pay, willingness to accept, the three parts of the environmental evaluation toolkit; direct, revealed preference and stated preference, important features of costs, cost-benefit analysis, criteria for evaluating a project and incentive policies.

• Learning Outcomes
• Tragedy of the Commons
• Environmental Valuation
• Evaluating Projects and Policies
• Lesson Summary

Modern Environmental Management

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to environmental regulations governing waste management, waste management strategies, government regulations set for the protection of human health and the environment, four steps of risk assessment, estimating the dose received and exposure pathway, cumulative cancer and non-cancer risks, evaluating uncertainties in risk assessment.

• Learning Outcomes
• Systems of Waste Management
• Government and Laws on the Environment
• Risk Assessment Methodology for Conventional and Alternative Sustainability Options
• Lesson Summary

Sustainability and Environmental Challenges

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to the history of human energy use, challenges of continued reliance on fossil energy, the time scale for transition in energy use, environmental impacts of energy use, different energy sources based on environmental impact, and global capacity for non-renewable energy sources.

• Learning Outcomes
• Sustainability Challenges
• Environmental Challenges in Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Air, Water and Land Use 1
• Environmental Challenges in Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Air, Water and Land Use 2
• Lesson Summary

Energy Sources, Carriers and Energy Uses

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to the components of electricity, link between electricity generation and carbon emissions, sequestering carbon in geologic formations, sources of renewable energy, motivations for biofuels production, types of catalytic and biocatalytic routes to produce biofuels and biochemical, thermodynamic principles of a heat, types of geothermal systems, combined heat and power (CHP) as an alternative energy source, Phase Change Materials (PCM) and its applications.

• Learning Outcomes
• Energy Sources and Carriers 1
• Energy Sources and Carriers 2
• Energy Sources and Carriers 3
• Energy Uses
• Applications of Phase Change Materials for Sustainable Energy
• Lesson Summary

Sustainable Infrastructure

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to living in a sustainable city and how technology influences the form and pattern of a sustainable city, connections between the design of cities and resource use, ways buildings affect the environment and characteristics of sustainable buildings.

• Learning Outcomes
• Sustainability and Buildings
• Lesson Summary
• The Sustainable City

Sustainable Energy Practices

Description: In this module, you will be introduced to moving to a sustainable energy economy, the path to a sustainable energy economy, an automobile-based system of transportation, why transportation is a derived demand, accessibility and mobility, storm water runoff, managing storm water runoff and conventional and innovative techniques to address water pollution.

• Learning Outcomes
• Climate Action Planning
• Sustainable Transportation
• Sustainable Storm Water Management
• Lesson Summary

Diploma in Environmental Management - Second Assessment

Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.

• Assessment: Diploma in Environmental Management - Second Assessment

Course assessment

• Assessment: Diploma in Environmental Management - Course Assessment