POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO

MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MANAGEMENT (EPM)

COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Title:
Course code: Credits:
Management for a Sustainable
EPM 6850 3 credits
Future
Course description:
This course provides an in depth analysis of broad based sustainable
development concept discussing governance, environment, and growth
with equity.

Textbook:
1. “Achieving Broad-based Sustainable Development. Governance,
Environment and Growth with Equity”, James H. Weaver, Michael T.
Rock and Kenneth Kusterer, First Edition, Kumarian Press, 1997.
(ISBN 1-56549-058-4)
References:

1. “A Natural Resources Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future”,

Oliver S. Owen and Daniel D. Chiras, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1990.
2. “Our Waste, Our Responsibility: Towards Sustainable Waste Management in
New Zealand”, Center for Advanced Engineering, University of Canterbury, Dec.
1992.
3. “The Role of Engineering in Sustainable Development”, American Society of
Engineering Societies, 1994.
4. “Sustainable Development: The Weston Way for Environmental Solutions”, Roy
F. Weston Inc., April/May 1995.
5. “Conocimiento y Sustentabilidad Ambiental del Desarrollo en América Latina y
el Caribe”, Francisco León-Dolmen, Agosto 1994.
6. “Introduction to Broad Based Sustainable Development Laws (BBSD) Applied to
Puerto Rico”, Edbertho Leal Quirós, Ph.D., Graduate School of Management of
the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. October 5, 2001.
7. Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond. W.W. Norton& Company1999.
(ISBN 0-393-31755-2)
8. Collapse, Jared Diamond. Published by Viking Penguin , 2005 (ISBNo-670-
03337-7)

Goals:
The general goal is to provide knowledge on broad based sustainable
development Laws, as a planning and management way to conduct
commerce. The Analysis to the four laws of Broad Base Sustainable
Development must be demonstrated by the students using a particular
example like a country, city or institution.
The specific goal is to develop the expertise about how to apply
sustainable development as a management tool and use broad based
sustainable development laws in the analysis of countries, cities, etc.
Academic Methodology:

Lectures will introduce fundamentals and new concepts. The discussion

of specific control techniques will be emphasized. Each student will
determine the best control alternative for specific situations.
Students will prepare a term paper incorporating its discussion method
to recommend specific air pollution control devices or the application of
air/atmospheric modeling. Students also will read books related to
different topics of Broad Base Sustainable Development.

Topics Covered:

1. The Concept of Broad Based Sustainable Development

a) A Healthy Growing Economy Undergoing Structural
Transformation
b) Distributing the Benefits of Growth
c) Increasing Freedom, Effective Governance, and Democracy
d) Protecting the Environment
2. Natural Resources Conservation and Management
3. Sustainable Development for Economic Growth
4. Lessons from Ecology
5. Sustainable Waste Management
6. Forest and Wildlife Management
7. Sustainable Agriculture
8. Sustainable System of Energy
Evaluation Criteria:

Mid Term Exam 25%

Oral presentation 20%
Project report 20%
Final Exam 35%

Total 100%

Revised by Edbertho Leal, PhD.

August 10, 2006