RIT Symposium Conclusions
May 28, 2008 by Brian Butler and John Morelli | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-The Goal of the Environmental Manager, Overview
During this workshop the hypothesis was posed that environmental sustainability is the ultimate goal of the environmental manager. There were varying opinions on this and no consensus. However there was consensus regarding the belief that the profession should have a unifying goal. What that goal is or should be was not determined during the brief discussions. Current examples of lesser “goals” included regulatory compliance, pollution prevention, and environmental risk/liability avoidance. A question was asked whether these were actually goals, or rather objectives along the way. The workshop groups briefly explored what each of these goals were actually working toward accomplishing, and considered whether or not these goals were a means to an end, or if these goals were the end. No consensus was reached on the ultimate goal of the profession.
