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Third International Symposium Held in Dubrovnik on October 3 & 4, 2008

The American College of Management and Technology and the Environmental Management Leadership Initiative co-hosted the third International Environmental Management Leadership Symposium on the 3rd and 4th of October in Dubrovnik, Croatia.  Keynote speakers for the event included Dr. N. Ružinski, State Secretary for Environmental Protection from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, who discussed Environmental Management in Croatia and Mr. Vinko Mladineo, Director of the Croatian Fund for Environmental Protection & Energy Efficiency, who spoke about Environmental Management & the Croatian Fund. 

The full agenda can be viewed at:  dubrovnikenvironmentalmanagementsymposiumagenda-9-24.

Below you will find links to the summaries of the workshops held in Dubrovnik:

The Role of the Environmental Manager in the Workplace

The Effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems Summary

The Goals of the Environmental Manager

The Environmental Manager Skill Set


Welcome Home, Environmental Manager (Click heading to add comments.)

For those new to EnvironmentalManager.org, it may sound a bit presumptuous to be welcomed home on your first visit, but this is a website developed by and for environmental managers and the profession of environmental management and you are welcome here.   If you are a professional environmental manager, then you are invited to participate in this collaboration to [...]

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Papers

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Abstract          Title
  click                Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Strategy: Why a Firm’s “Chief Environmental Officer” Should Be Its CEO

  click               Ethics, Economics, and Environmental Management
  click               Ethics: Essence For Sustainability
  click               Academy of Board Certified Environmental Professionals
  click               The Man–Nature Relationship and Environmental Ethics
  click               The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
  click               The Chartered Institution [...]

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Report on the Status of Environmental Management in Hungary

On Monday and Tuesday, 23 & 24 June, a second international Environmental Management Leadership Symposium will be held at Corvinus University in Budapest. In preparation for this event, a recent research report about the state of EM in Hungary is attached for your review (environmental-management-in-hungary.doc).  The findings, analysis and conclusions of the report are based upon [...]

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Comments and Suggestions from the RIT Symposium

Comments and suggestions from the RIT Symposium were collected and are presented below.
Consolidation and Overview of Symposium Suggestions/Critiques 
There seemed to be a general feeling among the moderators that most participants were quite receptive to the idea of environmental managers being more active players with their respective companies, however, the problem area tended to rest in [...]

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM AT RIT

Monday morning at 8:00 approximately 60 environmental managers and professionals from other related disciplines will meet at the RIT Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS Building #78) for the first international Environmental Management Leadership Symposium!  Click here for the agenda! 

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Environmental Strategy: Emerging market for consultancy services

Environmental Strategy: Emerging market for consultancy services
As corporations have come of age in their sensitivities to environmental concerns, this article beacons on the environmental manager to seize the opportunities present to accept a leadership role in guiding corporations to meeting their desire to becoming more environmentally responsible. It also challenges the environmental manager to look [...]

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Don’t waste your waste, Pointers for settingup a solid waste recycling program at your facility

Don’t waste your waste, Pointers for settingup a solid wasterecyclingprogram at your facility by Lori D. Pfeil
This article is a complementary to the”Renewable Refuse” article in Environmental Protection magazine, May 2007 that was in my previous post.

Abstract

After reading the “Renewable Refuse”, this article is discussing the questions: where do we start? what should be involved? [...]

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Measuring environmentally sustainable development

Measuring environmentally sustainable development
Gross National Product, while a tool for measurement of a countries well being does not always appropriately capture the full picture specifically to include inequality and poverty, true measure of human resource, environmental impact of various activities and the spiritual, social, political aspects of welfare. Many of these aspects cannot be measured in any quantitative [...]

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Environmental cost accounting and auditing

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A history of the extension of traditional cost accounting systems to account for environmental impacts and their costs goes back toward the end of the 1970’s in Germany where rules were promulgated to calculate the business costs of environmental protection.  This article looks at the flow- and decision-oriented perspective of environmental cost accounting as a supplement for [...]

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