May 7, 2009 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: In the host community [1, 4]

Benn, Suzanne, Dexter Dunphy, and Andrew Martin. “Governance of Environmental Risk: New Approaches to Managing Stakeholder Involvement.” Journal of Environmental Management 90 4 (2009): 1567-75. Disputes concerning industrial legacies such as the disposal of toxic wastes illustrate changing pressures on corporations and governments. Business and governments are now confronted with managing the expectations of a [...]

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March 31, 2009 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: Generating Sustainability Innovation [4]

To be added

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March 26, 2009 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: Paying for Sustainability [4]

This workshop seeks to address the question: “What do environmental managers need to know about accounting, economics, and finance?” Traditional topics in EH&S Management Accounting and Finance courses are focused on extensions of activity based costing (ABC) and material flow cost accounting—much of which is fairly new in its application to environmental management. For example, [...]

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March 16, 2009 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE and | Filed under: Using Strategic Business to Maximize the Benefits of ISO 14001 [4]

Much has been written on the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of ISO 14001.  This workshop will focus on how strategic business planning may be used to maximize the benefits of ISO 14001.  A model for integrating environmental business drivers into strategic business planning and then using that strategy as the foundation for ISO 14001 will be [...]

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April 29, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: General,In the industry and in the workplace [1, 2, 3],Literature Review,RESEARCH CATEGORY: THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

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 beyond their roles as compliance promoters [...]

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April 29, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE and | Filed under: Environmental Valuation and Accounting [1],General,Literature Review

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 sense, of course, [...]

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April 21, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE , Brian Butler , and admin | Filed under: In the industry and in the workplace [1, 2, 3],Literature Review,RESEARCH CATEGORY: THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

The environmental manager has come a long was since the early days of being viewed in the industry “as harbingers of additional cost and restrictions” (Voluntary Environmental Management:The Inevitable Future-John Morelli)) to a more defined professional seen as needed to facilitate change in environmental culture. But with the establishment of the environmentalism culture and metamorphosis [...]

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April 19, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: Collaboratory,Environmental Valuation and Accounting [1],General,Literature Review,RESEARCH CATEGORY: TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

The term service provider solicits an immediate attention to the business community in defining an entity, individual or business, that provides for a need of another entity.  To subscribe to the ecological environment as a “Service Provider” as implicitly captured in the term “Ecosystem services” challenges the social and economic community not only to begin to adopt the [...]

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March 29, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE , John Morelli and | Filed under: Overview

Just familiarizing myself with this interesting method of learning.

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