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FINDING SUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS

OUR PROCESS

Our process helps Canada achieve sustainable development solutions that integrate environmental and economic considerations to ensure the lasting prosperity and well-being of our nation.

RESEARCH

We rigorously research and conduct high quality analysis on issues of sustainable development. Our thinking is original and thought provoking.

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We convene opinion leaders and experts from across Canada around our table to share their knowledge and diverse perspectives. We stimulate debate and integrate polarities. We create a context for possibilities to emerge.

ADVISE

We generate ideas and provide realistic solutions to advise governments, Parliament and Canadians. We proceed with resolve and optimism to bring Canada’s economy and environment closer together.

Home / Sustainable Development: A Manager’s Handbook

Sustainable Development: A Manager’s Handbook

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RELEASED
1991

By David W. Conklin, Richard C. Hodgson, and Eileen D. Watson

Business in Canada, as in other parts of the world, is facing increasing pressure from the public and from governments to conduct itself in an environmentally responsible manner. This book, the first in a series on Sustainable Development issues, reminds business managers of those pressures and the new legislative framework in which they must now operate. Our main aim, however, is to provide managers with the information that will encourage and enable them to improve their environmental and economic performance.