Faculty Talk: "Environmental Justice & Business/Community Engagement - Challenges & Opportunities in the Extractives Industries" - Michael Oxman, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business and Dr. Chris Anderson, Yirri Global, Acorn International LLC

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Monday November 14, 2016
      12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
  • Location: TSRB Auditorium
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Summaries

Summary Sentence: Michael Oxman & Dr. Chris Anderson, Yirri Global and Senior Advisor, Acorn International LLC will explore challenges and opportunities of business/community outreach, communication, and engagement drawing primarily from the energy and mining sectors.

Full Summary: This talk, by Michael Oxman, the new Managing Director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business in the Scheller College of Business, & Dr. Chris Anderson, Principal, Yirri Global, Research Associate at the Colorado School of Mines, and Adjunct Professor in the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland, will explore challenges and opportunities of business/community outreach, communication, and engagement drawing primarily from the energy and mining sectors.  Environmental and social "performance" among businesses is uneven and we will examine some of the ingredients for mutually beneficial community engagement processes and outcomes.

This talk, by Michael Oxman, the new Managing Director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business in the Scheller College of Business, & Dr. Chris Anderson, Principal, Yirri Global, Research Associate at the Colorado School of Mines, and Adjunct Professor in the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland, will explore challenges and opportunities of business/community outreach, communication, and engagement drawing primarily from the energy and mining sectors.  Environmental and social "performance" among businesses is uneven and we will examine some of the ingredients for mutually beneficial community engagement processes and outcomes.

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Serve-Learn-Sustain

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Public, Undergraduate students, Graduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
Center for Sustainable Business, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, SLS
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  • Created By: Yonatan Weinberg
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Sep 29, 2016 - 1:13pm
  • Last Updated: Apr 13, 2017 - 5:14pm