Description
Course length: 5 days
Course description
Sustainable Management and Governance equips you with the knowledge and skills to succeed as responsible business leaders in the renewable energy sector. Forward-looking firms, public authorities, civil society and international institutions need to develop creative market-based solutions to alleviate environmental challenges, social injustice and poverty, in an ecosystemic approach.
The aim of this course is to contribute to training a new generation of managers, aware of societal challenges and aspiring to be part of the solution, regardless of their professional activity. Governance can be understood as the rules, mechanisms, processes and institutions through which important decisions are made and implemented. The course discusses the contested nature of both these concepts and investigates how both are combined in local, national, regional and international policy-making about environmental and development challenges such as poverty, global inequalities, loss of biodiversity, deterioration of global eco-systems, and the threat of climate change to human societies.
The course also will assist to develop participants’ understanding of the key concepts and principles of sustainable development and governance. While dealing with the practical implementation of sustainable development. Since sustainable development is one of the target areas in the renewable energy sector, governance structures are essential for its implementation.
This course explores the crucial link between governance and sustainable development. Sustainable development has emerged as the global norm and dominant approach to reconciling the goals of economic development,
environmental quality and social equity.
Who should Attend
- Company managers
- Government officials
- All individuals with a passion for creating more environmentally friendly and sustainable business models.
- All employees from the energy sector who wish to learn more on sustainability and governance
What you will learn
Participants will discuss governance issues in sustainable development, analyze issues in the form of practical case studies. These case studies will provide an insight into different steering mechanisms for both individual behavioral and societal change, with a strong focus on stakeholder involvement and participation. At the completion of the course, students should be able to answer the following questions.
- What kinds of governance structures are most effective?
- Are new forms of cooperation and coordination needed?
- What are the benefits of the formation of networks and partnerships?
- What challenges and bottlenecks arise from these new organizational forms of governance?
Course Outline
- Sustainable Development – an integrative approach
- The governance challenge of sustainable development – from environmental policy to sustainable development policy
- Governance – as new paradigm in the renewable energy sector
- Environmental Governance and Governance for Sustainable Development.
- Types of effective governance structures
- Forms of cooperation and coordination needed for sustainability and governance of renewables
- Benefits of the formation of networks and partnerships
- Challenges and bottlenecks arising from these new organizational forms of governance
- Complexity and operations of governance systems and processes on international, national and local levels.
- Differences between government and governance, and the various ideas and meanings attached to the goal of sustainable development.
- Policy-making processes in regard to sustainability issue
