Tools for Sustainability in Theory and Practice

Описание: International Summer School / www.let-group.com
ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
2005

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Dr. Gerald Steiner

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Sustainability is the principle of ensuring that our actions today do not limit the range of economic, social, and environmental options open to future generations’. The effective management of environmental impacts have become key goals for policy actions at global, local, and single business levels as well. You will explore whether organisations will need to fundamentally reevaluate their philosophy and policies if they (and we) are to have any kind of sustainable future. You will examine sustainable development as a concept integrating global environmental and development agendas and how environmental concerns need to be integrated into the day-to-day management and functioning of organisations and the evaluation and monitoring of their ongoing performance. Sustainable Development provides a unique opportunity for the participants to study and develop skills relating to one of the most important principles for the development of single businesses and whole regions as well and needs consideration both on the local and the global level.
The framework of this course will be given by applied systems thinking, stakeholder considerations as a core element of transdisciplinarity and various tools as e.g. the sustainability balanced scorecard and networks, but also tools for creative problem solving. This course will be mainly based on group-work and case-study method, giving the participants an opportunity to experience the application of various types of highly innovative tools of environmental management in practice. Therefore most recent experiences made in a joint project together with the ETH-Zürich will also be included in the working sessions.

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Producer: Matjaž Lobnik
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