6th Environmental Management Leadership Symposium in Lueneburg: 21.03.10-23.03.10

Project: Scientific event

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With "Advancing the Profession: From Environmental to Sustainability Management" as the central theme of the 6th Environmental Management Leadership Symposium (EMLS) in March 2010 a clear statement is made: Not only is there a need to further integrate the management of ecological and social challenges and opportunities with a company's economic business goals. There is also a need for educating highly skilled professionals, who are sufficiently qualified to develop and implement innovative solutions and manage the dynamic facets of their professional field.

Corporate sustainability management clearly is interdisciplinary making it quite a demanding task to accomplish. Moreover, the ever evolving expectations from a sustainability manager's role are far from having been fully framed yet. That is why a good understanding and definition of a sustainability manager's profession cannot be accomplished without an ongoing discourse between business professionals providing their valuable hands-on experience and researchers exploring and analysing scientific advancements in the field of sustainability management.

Throughout the 6th EMLS about 60 handpicked professionals and scientists were invited to discuss and further determine the sustainability manager's role. A mix of plenary sessions and workshops allowed for intensive exchange of ideas and opinions with experts on an international cross-company and academic level. Additionally to presenting the advancements of corporate sustainability management in larger MNEs such as Hyundai Motor Company, Deutsche Post DHL and Accenture, the symposium offered insights into struggles that small and medium-sized companies face with regard to implementing corporate sustainability management. Furthermore, the symposium highlighted a sustainability manager's various fields of operation, may it be in terms of supply chain management, material and energy flow accounting, socio-controlling, communication through financial ratings and rankings, driving sustainable consumption through innovative ideas, biodiversity management or the development of an alternative business model for sustainability. As the central thread we promoted the debate how to improve the education of change agents for sustainability to make them capable of facing the present and upcoming challenges of corporate sustainability management.
AcronymEML-Symposium
StatusFinished
Period11.03.1008.04.11

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  1. Notting Hill Gate 3
  2. Aufmerksamkeitsstörung, Hyperaktivität und Lehrerverhalten
  3. Das Diagramm ist viel zu perfekt
  4. Emotionale Kompetenz entwickeln
  5. Inside-out sustainability
  6. Management of change
  7. Mobbing im Arbeitsleben und in der Schule
  8. Digitale Musikproduktion
  9. Harmonising biodiversity conservation and food security in southwestern Ethiopia
  10. "Green-ness" Can Be Measured
  11. Biocultural approaches to sustainability
  12. The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Enterprises from Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from a Replication Study
  13. Wie der pädagogische Eros erfunden wurde
  14. Teacher Education for Sustainable Development
  15. Professionspfade in der Gesundheitsförderung.
  16. Agriculturally productive yet biodiverse
  17. Carnivores’ contributions to people in Europe
  18. "So was gibt's vielleicht, wenn's um die Todesstrafe geht"
  19. Lehrerqualität zwischen Kompetenz und Ethos
  20. Palaeogeography and palaeoecology of Carabus auronitens (Coleoptera)
  21. Research on the social perception of invasive species
  22. Woody plant species diversity as a predictor of ecosystem services in a social–ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia
  23. Das neue tschechische Kartellrecht
  24. Lehrerqualität zwischen Kompetenz und Ethos
  25. Erziehungssystem
  26. Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
  27. Werkstattheft - Mit Parkettierungen, Formen und Symmetrien experimentieren
  28. The artistic spirit of cities
  29. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of a novel solid-state recycling process for aluminum alloy AA6063 chips via direct hot rolling
  30. Von der Präsenzmasse zur statistischen Masse
  31. Do Nonprofessional Investors Value the Assurance of Integrated Reports?
  32. Jobmotor Mittelstand?