July 25, 2008 by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: 2, 3-Manager vs. Scientist/Engineer
An alternate offering of this summary can be found HERE
Venue: Corvinus Symposium, June 23-24, 2008
Workshop Topic: The Environmental Management Skill Set:
A balance between engineering/science and management.
Workshop Moderator: Scott Wolcott
Summary:
It was proposed that the question, “What is the appropriate balance of skills?” be addressed by first identifying beneficial skill sets an engineer/scientist and business manager might [...]
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by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: 1, 2-The EM and Corporate Social Responsibility
This summary is also available as a Word Document
Overview
The workshop was moderated by CUB graduate student and assistant professor Simon Milton and was attended by one practicing environmental management professional, a number of graduate students from environmental management programs and one member of department faculty.
Participants:
Moderator: Simon Milton: Simon.milton@uni-corvinus.hu
1) Anna Szechy Anna.szechy@uni-corvinus.hu
2) Szilvia Gartner sgartner@denso.hu
3) Laura Baritz laura@hcbc.hu
4) Prof. [...]
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July 21, 2008 by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: 2, 3-Effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems
Conclusions of the Workshop on Environmental Management Systems Environmental Management Systems have been around since the middle ofthe 1990’s and became mainstream tools of managing environmental issuesin the corporate sector since then. There have been much researchrelating to the motivation factors and barriers/benefits and costs ofmanagement systems. Motivation factors to implement an EMS include thepush [...]
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July 15, 2008 by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: HELP
a. Navigating to WordPress
Go to www.environmentalmanager.org; find the “login” link at the top right of the page, and login using your user name and password.
After logging in, you will be returned to the http://www.environmentalmanager.org home page (only now you will be signed in); once there, click on the “my profile” link at the top right [...]
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by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: 1, 2, 3-The Goal of the Environmental Manager
This workshop on the goals of the environmental manager focused on the concept of a unifying, or profession-wide goal for the environmental management profession. At the previous Environmental Management Leadership symposium held at RIT in May, 2008, a hypothesis was proposed that stated that environmental sustainability is the ultimate goal of the environmental manager; after [...]
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