ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALING

The environmental management profession is made up of individuals with a wide range of academic and experiential backgrounds, including, but certainly not limited to: civil, chemical, and environmental engineers; chemists, biologists, geologists, and environmental scientists; lawyers, financial managers, human resource directors, operations managers, and a relatively small but hopefully increasing number of individuals who were actually prepared as environmental managers. Thus finding a reasonable set of qualifying credentials for the profession is an elusive problem. On one hand, our amalgamated skills may appear much broader than the environmental management needs of the organizations we serve, yet when we consider the breadth of the concept of sustainability, perhaps not. The subtopics in this collaboratory explore the possibility of establishing requisite skills for the profession and credentialing of environmental management professionals.

Subcategories

• 2, 3-Manager vs. Scientist/Engineer
• Certification and Licensing
• Codes of Practice
• Preparation of Environmental Managers
• Profession vs. Vocation
• Professional Oaths
• Standards of Competence