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Master of Corporate Environmental and Sustainability Management (M CESM)

Sustainability is core to business strategy and practice, creating both opportunities and risks. This postgraduate program is designed to meet the growing demand for suitably trained and skilled professionals to lead the transformation of organisations. It will equip you with essential insights and competency in designing, implementing and facilitating sustainability solutions for business. The complex mix of social, ecological and economic sustainability imperatives is the primary focus of this program. This program is available to people from a broad range of disciplines, professions and levels of experience and includes graduate diploma and graduate certificate options.

Elective themes Core knowledge units
A number of elective units can be chosen from the following themes. Corporate sustainability management
  • The 21st century business challenge
  • Sustainable development drivers
  • Markets and measures
  • Mapping organisational competencies
  • Organisational change models for practice
  • Building the business case for sustainability
 Sustainability measurement
  • Corporate management accounting and reporting systems
  • 'Hidden' costs associated with poor sustainability practices and inefficiencies
  • Alternative methods for enhancing the transparency of corporate accounting practices
  • Implications of sustainability issues for financial decision making
 Perspectives on Environment and Sustainability
  • Defining 'Sustainability' and its historical development
  • Disciplinary, interdisciplinary and other forms of knowledge
  • Analysing different worldviews, environmental values and stakeholder positions
  • Alternative Sustainability frameworks
  • Concept Mapping as a tool for advancing Sustainability principles
 Corporate environmental responsibility
  • Environmental law in Australia and its application to business and development
  • International environmental obligations and corporations
  • Common law rights
  • Government responsibilities and emerging regulatory models
  • Role and implications of economic incentives
Business development
Environmental management
Organisational behaviour
Project management
Environment and law
International development
International trade

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