Workshop: Evaluation of Natural Resources
April 2, 2009 by Brian Butler , AROMAKE AFIEGBE , John Morelli , John Morelli , John Morelli , John Morelli , John Morelli and John Morelli | Filed under: Evaluation of Natural Resources
The workshop is about the potential role of the evaluation of natural resources in the life of corporations and/or in general.The objective of this workshop is to clarify the main points where a corporation has a share in evaluating changes in natural resources. This workshop will be structured as follows:
-At the beginning of the workshop a short description of the essence of evaluation of natural resources will be presented
-Some key issues of the workshop will be highlighted and discussed with the participants (with the possibility for further discussion of more questions/issues)
-Followed by a moderated debate about:
- the role of the evaluation of natural resources to business
- how can the results be used in the life of corporations?
- when do the corporations have a share in evaluating changes in natural resources?
- Summarizing the comments
This workshop will be moderated by Dr. Zsuzsanna Szerényi and Dr. Ágnes Zsóka.
“>Dr. Zsuzsanna Szerényi has been working at the Corvinus University of Budapest since 1986. She is currently head of the department. From the mid-1990 she has been dealing with the topic of evaluation of natural resources. She has dealt with the contingent valuation and choice experiment method in detail. Besides researching, she teaches environmental economics at undergraduate and graduate levels, and her special subject at the graduate level is connected to the topic of the workshop (evaluation of natural resources), so it is a topic keen to her.
Ágnes Zsóka is an economist and has been working for the Department of Environmental Economics and Technology at Corvinus University of Budapest since 1997. As senior assistant professor she teaches corporate environmental management, eco-marketing, environmental strategy, environmental economics, as well as learning and research methodology. Dr. Zsóka’s specialization areas in research are the sustainable behavior of companies and the society, as well as sustainability indicators.