March 31, 2009 by
John Morelli
| Filed under: General,Regarding Social Responsibility [1, 2, 4]
Social responsibility requires an understanding that goes beyond the rule of law and recognizes obligations that are not mandated by law. This expanded perspective is broader than the most common expectations of the environmental manager and include not only protection of the natural environment and pollution prevention, but also sustainable resource use, restoration of the [...]
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John Morelli
| Filed under: General,In the host community [1, 4]
The topics of discussion for this workshop will be: • The expectations of the profession regarding the responsibilities of the environmental manager to the community that hosts his or her company? • The appropriate role of the environmental manager in participating in guiding and directing his or her organization with respect to its obligation to [...]
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March 30, 2009 by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: The Goal of the Environmental Manager [1, 2, 3, 4]
Unlike many other professions there appears to be a lack of a clearly defined goal for the professional environmental manager. This may be in part due to the relative maturity of the profession when compared to doctors or lawyers for example, or potentially due to the absence of any substantial exploration with regard to the [...]
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Brian Butler
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John Morelli
| Filed under: Value of Eco-services and the Organization [4]
Dr. Pogutz applies critical concepts of ecology and biophysical principles to management studies, aiming to bridge the divide between greening management studies and ecological sustainability. He will introduce an integrated theoretical model of ecosystem embeddedness of organizations and suggest three clusters of sustainable strategies that firms can use to achieve long-term competitive advantage. He argues that firms [...]
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March 26, 2009 by
AROMAKE AFIEGBE
| Filed under: Paying for Sustainability [4]
This workshop seeks to address the question: “What do environmental managers need to know about accounting, economics, and finance?” Traditional topics in EH&S Management Accounting and Finance courses are focused on extensions of activity based costing (ABC) and material flow cost accounting—much of which is fairly new in its application to environmental management. For example, [...]
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March 16, 2009 by
AROMAKE AFIEGBE
and
| Filed under: Using Strategic Business to Maximize the Benefits of ISO 14001 [4]
Much has been written on the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of ISO 14001. This workshop will focus on how strategic business planning may be used to maximize the benefits of ISO 14001. A model for integrating environmental business drivers into strategic business planning and then using that strategy as the foundation for ISO 14001 will be [...]
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