A2.6.5 Sustainable Solutions
Once you have identified that an environmental problem or opportunity exists, how do you propose sustainable solutions?
The answer to this question is so wide-ranging it is not possible to provide a specific answer. Rather, the aim of this course as a whole is to give you the skills you need to identify solutions that suit your particular circumstances.
Throughout this course we shall examine tools that will help you. These include:
- Environmental Management Systems [C2]
- Life Cycle Analysis [C5]
- Organisational Value Chain [earlier in A2]
- Business Case [earlier in A2]
- Ecological Footprinting [A4]
- Carbon Footprinting [A4]
- Environmental Impact Assessment [C6]
- Strategic Environmental Assessment [C7]
- Environmental Risk Assessment [C8]
- Cost Benefit Analysis [C9]
- Positive Sustainability Culture [C10]
Technological solutions should not be forgotten. In B2 we shall look at Pollution Prevention and Control.