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This paper explores the importance of environmental integration in business strategies to conserve assets, develop sectors like renewable energies and sustainable construction, attract investments, enhance skills development, promote resource efficiency, and utilize the environment for branding. It discusses the significance of landscape, historic environment, nature, environmental technologies, waste and water management, inward investment, and green skills programs for competitiveness and economic sustainability. The case studies, facilitator's experience, and feedback emphasize the top three issues for successful environmental integration.
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Making a case for environmental integration
Conserving environmental assets • Landscape • Historic environment • Nature
Developing the environmental business sector • Renewable energies • Environmentally sustainable construction • Environmental technologies • Earth sciences • Waste management • Water management
Attracting and retaining skills, business and investment • Inward investment • Developing a ‘unique selling point’
Environmental management skills for business • Environment sector skills development • Environmental management skills • Greening skills programmes
Resource efficiency for competitiveness • Resource and energy efficient construction • Management of waste, water, energy etc • Procurement and local sourcing • Conservation of natural resources to ensure sustainable economic use
Use of the environment in branding and niche marketing • Sustainable tourism development • Marketing environmental credentials • Use of environmental imagery in advertising
Format • Introduction to the topic • Summary of the case studies • The facilitator’s experience • Other views • Feedback - Top three issues