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The CSD Management defintion and the CSD Management work unit concept
have been presented for general discussion.

The Corporate Suststainable Development (CSD) management defintion reflects
Our Common Future's chapter on sustainable development and industry. 

The CSD management defintion and work unit are from a recently completed
unpublished paper: Advocacy: CSD Management �� A Competitive Edge For
Profitable Business.

In Advocacy, the author contends that an on�site CSD management work unit
for engineering infrastructure projects is an innovative, profit�oritented
and an internationally competitive way to do business. CSD management
practices can assist a company to obtain ISO 14000 certification.

The Table of Contents of the 3,000 word Advocacy article has also been
included.  Should a journal editor be interested in possibly publishing
this paper, please contact me.

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1.0 CORPORATE SUSTAINBLE DEVLOPMENT MANAGEMENT

1.1 CSD Management Defined

CSD management integrates economic decisions with stakeholders' concerns
for the prudent utilization of natural resources and society's well-being,
Figure 1 [Figure 1 graphic not include. For a copy, e�mail your fax number]. 

As an equation, CSD management = CED+CEM+CSM/t:

 where  CED = corporate economic decision-making
        CEM = corporate environmental management
	CSM = corporate  social management
	t   = intergenerational time frame

Corporate economic decision-making is the way a business is managed in its
quest for solvency, financial gain and accumulated wealth.  

Corporate environmental management  means, at a minimum, a company must not
"endanger the natural system that supports life on Earth: the atmosphere,
the waters, the soils, and the living things".  

Corporate social management are actions taken to foster society's
well-being. Three elements of social well-being are: the human condition,
the social condition and cultural heritage.

Intergenerational time (t) means CSD management "meets the need of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs".

1.2 CSD Management Work Unit Services

Corporate sustainable development (CSD) management is an innovative,
profit-oriented and internationally competitive way to do business.

A CSD management work unit would consist of a Team of environmental
management and engineering professionals. The concept of a CSD management
work unit is applicable to medium and large companies in all business
sectors and institutional organizations. In small companies, the
accountant, the personnel officer or the administration officers would have
CSD management responsibilities. 

This paper advocates CSD management practices for international engineering
infrastructure projects. The CSD management work unit would provide the
following type of services:

	* compliance to Government and regulatory EIA action plans;
	* on-site operational environmental and cultural heriatge analyses;
	* proact to operational environmental and cultural heritage issues;
	* proact by provding workers' with coprorate environmental
	  management and culturl heritage training;
	* conduct CSD audits, monitoring and action plan evaluations;
	* proact with CSD management communications strategies; and
	* provide CSD management quarterly and annual reports.


An on-site CSD management work unit would provide, project-related,
environmental and cultural heritage support services to an engineering
firm's infrastructure construction project. Many international
infrastructure projects, such as an urban light-rail transit system, are
BOOT projects whereby aconsortium Builds, Owns, Operates and Transfers the 
project, to finance the cost of the project. 

A CSD management work unit would devise and implement solutions to
preventable and, avoid creating unncessary, operational environmental
and cultural heritage issues.

The scope of the CSD management policies and practices would vary by
business sector and on an infrastructure project-by-project basis.


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ADVOCACY: CSD Management -- A Competitive Edge for Profitable Business
			

					TABLE  OF  CONTENTS



		1.0	CORPORATE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 
		1.1	CSD Management Defined				  1
  	        1.2   	CSD Management Work Unit Services 		  1
		1.3	CSD Management Goal, Purpose and Outputs          3			
		1.4	Rationale					  5			


		
		2.0	CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
		2.1	CEM Defined					  5			
		2.2	CEM Survival Needs				  6	6		            	*	CEM Financial Nee
                        *  CEM Financial Needs                            6
			*  CEM Marketing Needs			          8
			*  CEM Public Perception Needs                    8				
		2.3	Operational Environmental Issues	          9			
		2.4	Environmental Management Systems                  10				9
		2.5	CSD Stakeholders                                  10

							
		3.0	CORPORATE SOCIAL MANAGEMENT
		3.1	The Sustainable Human Ecosystem                  12
		3.2	Cultural Heritage Management Services            13
 
		4.0	CSD MANAGEMENT'S COMPETITIVE EDGE
		4.1	ISO 14000's Competitive Edge			 14
		4.2	Enhancing Environmental Engineering Expertise    14
		4.3	U.K. Firms will be First: Who will be Last?      15
		4.4	The Firm's Options: do it now or try to 
                        catch up later	                                 15

		5.0	Endnotes References                              --						-		

                                  FIGURES

		1.	Corporate Sustainable Development                  2

			Integrated Management Decision Making			
		2.	CSD Management Services in Relation to a           4
			in Relation to a Project's Life-cycle Phases			4
		3.	Corporate Environmental Management Survival Needs  7	
		4.	Operational Environmental Issues                   9

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Peter R. Downing  MBA, CA


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