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Date
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Thursday 4th December 2008
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Time
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5.30pm - 6.00pm
Registration and Refreshments
6.00 pm - 7.30pm Panel Presentation
7.30pm - 8.30pm Cocktail Reception
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Venue
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Terrace 1
Stamford Plaza Adelaide
150 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000
Telephone 08 8461 0853
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Cost
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FREE and open to the public
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Schedule:
5.30 Tea, coffee and light refreshments
6.00 Panel presentation
6.00 Opening comments – Professor Gerry Griffin
6.05 Introductions by chair
6.10 Panellist #1 (15 minutes)
6.25 Panellist #2 (15 minutes)
6.40 Panellist #3 (15 minutes)
6.55 Panellist #4 (15 minutes)
7.10 Questions from floor (20-30 minutes)
7.30 (7.40) Cocktail Reception
At this special public presentation a panel of experts
from Japan, Germany and Australia will discuss the
question of whether business should have a lighter or
heavier involvement in resolving the ecological crisis
and how information and improved accountability can best
be used to help corporations manage movement towards a
sustainable future. You are invited to register your
interest in attending.
Managing our environment - is business in too deep?
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Speakers |
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Professor James Guthrie
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James is a well known speaker and international
scholar with expertise in public sector
management and accounting. As Professor and
Chair of Discipline in the Faculty of Economics
and Business at The University of Sydney,
Australia he has published 145 articles in both
international and national refereed and
professional journals, and over 35 chapters in
books. He has presented his ideas and research
findings to 288 national and international
gatherings. James is also co-editor of eight
public sector management and accounting books.
James will consider the public sector 'business'
perspective.
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Professor Katsuhiko Kokubu
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Katsuhiko, a leader world scholar in his field,
has a focus on corporate social responsibility,
social and environmental management and
accounting. As Professor of Social and
Environmental Accounting in the Graduate School
of Business Administration at Kobe University,
Japan he is Project Convener of a new Japanese
proposal to the International Organization for
Standardization on Environmental management -
Material flow cost accounting - General
principles and framework as a guidance document
(ISO 14051). Katsuhiko will argue for the
proposition that business has a critical role to
play.
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Professor Dr Stefan Schaltegger
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Stefan is full professor for Management and
Business Economics, Head of the Centre for
Sustainability Management and Vice-President
Research of the Leuphana University Lüneburg,
Germany. Stefan is an expert on corporate
sustainability management and sustainable
entrepreneurship. He supports a strong role for
managers and entrepreneurs in creating
organizations and business models which initiate
and spur sustainable development of the economy
and society. He is Founder of the Centre for
Sustainability Management (CSM) and the
Sustainability Leadership Forum in Germany which
has 30 researchers dealing with measurement and
management of corporate sustainability
performance, sustainable and social
entrepreneurship, management of conservation and
biodiversity regions, and sustainability
innovations. Stefan will present a European view
in favour of sustainable entrepreneurship.
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Professor Carol Adams |
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Carol’s recent and current research projects are
concerned with: accounting and accountability
for social and environmental impacts;
environmental management systems and their
impact on environmental performance; the
integration of sustainability performance data
into decision making, performance management and
risk management; internal sustainability
reporting and performance management processes.
She has received funding for this work from the
Australian Research Council, the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants and a number
of other professional accounting bodies and is
one of the most read and cited authors in the
field of social and environmental accounting and
sustainability reporting. She is a Board Member
of the Asia Pacific Academy of Business in
Society and a former Director and Council Member
of AccountAbility. Carol will consider the role
of accounting and accountability in improving
sustainability performance.
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Panel chair |
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Professor
Roger Burritt
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Roger is the Director of the Centre for
Accounting, Governance and Sustainability in the
School of Commerce, Division of Business,
University of South Australia. He is the current
Director of the Centre for Accounting,
Governance and Sustainability at the University
of South Australia. Roger is Convenor of the 7th
Australian - Centre for Social and Environmental
Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) conference to be
held in Adelaide between 7-9 December 2008 |
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