Workshop: The Ultimate Goal of the Environmental Manager
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 goals of the environmental manager.
This workshop is essentially a continuation of a body of work that began at the RIT Symposium in 2008 and continued on to Budapest, Hungary and Dubrovnik, Croatia. This study was aimed at first uncovering what the current operational goals of the environmental manager were, and second, to determine if there was an ultimate goal for the profession. The significant findings in this study gave rise to the concept that each of the operational goals that environmental managers are working toward accomplishing are actually working toward accomplishing the same outcome: ecological balance.
It is the hope of the moderator that participants in this workshop will offer their respective opinions on the following:
- The operational goals of the environmental manager
- The link between the operational goals and a unifying and ultimate goal
- The reliability of ecological balance serving as the ultimate goal of the environmental manager