Skills for Sustainability. Dr David Hickie Chief Executive.

Skills for Sustainability

Dr David Hickie

Chief Executive

Society for the

Environment

Our Vision

“Sustainability through Professionalism”

We gained our Royal Charter in 2004

Our Aims:- Widespread recognition of important role of environmental and sustainability professionals in all areas of business, commerce and public sectors- Widespread recognition of status of Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)We are the Registration Authority which Licenses Member Institutions to award CEnv.

Our Aims:

- Seek to be a pre-eminent champion of sustainability

Our Aims:

- Seek to be the pre-eminent Champion of SustainabilityAdvocacy of views of sustainability and environmental professionals

Our Aims:

-Achieved by nurturing and harnessing the combined resources, knowledge, expertise and achievements of the professional and learned bodies which are its members.

…We act as umbrella organisation

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Our 15 Member Bodies

• Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)• Chartered Institution of Waste

Management (CIWM)• Institution of Water and

Environmental Management (CIWEM) • Institute of Agricultural Management

(IAgrM)• Institute of Ecology and

Environmental Management (IEEM)• Institute of Environmental

Management and Assessment (IEMA)• Institute of Fisheries Management

(IFM)

Our 15 Member Bodies

• Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) • Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) • Institution of Environmental Scientists (IES)• Institution of Water Officers (IWO)• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)• Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)

Associate Member Body • Institute of Professional Soil Scientists (IPPS)

Our Members Bodies

represent over 250,000

practitioners

4200 CEnvs as at Nov

2006

from our 13 licensed Member Bodies

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Skills for Sustainability?

1. What is the role of professional institutions on Sustainable Development and Sustainability?

2. Are there key skills that all professionals need?

3. Are these common across all professions and disciplines?

4. What are the next steps for institutions and/or individuals?

Summarising…

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Together…

“Sustainability through Professionalism”

Skills for Sustainability. Dr David Hickie Chief Executive.

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