Sustainable Best Practice For Events (PG)
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Subject Code:
EVT804
Subject Aim:
The introduction in 2012 of an International Standard for an Event Sustainability Management System – ISO 20121, has provided a guide to support event managers to minimise their environmental impact. This subject will use the standard as a framework for students to understand, plan, execute and evaluate sustainable best practice for events.
Learning Outcomes:
a) Appraise the core elements of a sustainable management system for events.
b) Create policies and procedures for incorporating sustainable best practice for an event.
c) Identify and evaluate issues, impacts, risks and opportunities of implementing sustainable best practices for events.
d) Create a solid business case for stakeholders to ‘buy in’ to investing and supporting sustainable best practice.
e) Apply the principles of ISO 20121 to an event.
Assessment Information:
Learning outcomes for this subject are assessed using a range of assessment tasks as described in the table below.
| No | Assessment task | Weighting | Assessment due (week/s) | Subject learning outcomes to be assessed |
| 1 | Online Portfolio | 25% | Week 4 | a, b, c |
| 2 | Case Study Presentation (G) | 25% | Week 8 | a, b, c, d |
| 3 | Written Sustainability Management System Manual | 50% | Week 11 | a, b, c, d, e |