“Your Reputation May Be At Stake! - Ethics for Environmental Practitioners”

Understanding ethical practice is as critical to your personal reputation and exposure to risk as it is to your employer or client. For employers, the ethical standards and reputation of an organisation are critical to attracting and retaining high calibre employees.

Ethical standards, competence, integrity, and accountability are cornerstones of the environment profession. EIANZ members and/or Certified Environmental Practitioners have an obligation to practice ethically. Use this event to refresh you knowledge of what that means.

In a workshop setting, you will have the opportunity to:

• understand ethics, morality, reputation and credibility, and the importance of ethical practice as the basis for community trust in professionals;
• learn about the EIANZ Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct;
• hone your capacity to identify and resolve ethical issues and dilemmas;
• understand the ethical and accountability obligations of environmental professionals, in both private and public organisations; and
• network with other environmental professionals during an afternoon wrestling with ethical issues.

Resolution of ethical challenges is helped by dialogue with others. The workshop will involve guided group work and plenty of opportunity for discussion.

Places are limited so register early for this important event. Even better, register two or three from the same organisation, come as a team and carry the conversation back to your organisation.

The event will be held at the conveniently located Griffith University, South Bank Campus.

Meet the presenters

Dr Alan Chenoweth | Environment planner, landscape architect & ethicist; Co-chair Indigenous Engagement & Chair Fellow Review Committee at EIANZ; President Friends of Parks Qld

Dr Alan Chenoweth is an ethicist, Certified Environmental Practitioner and Registered Landscape Architect, Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University, with qualifications in agricultural science, landscape architecture, planning and a PhD in the ethics of professional environmental practice. Now semi-retired from consultancy, he has expertise in plant ecology, conservation, environmental planning and urban issues, a Churchill Fellowship in social housing and is experienced in governance and management of professional institutes.

With over 40 years experience in plant sciences, landscape design, conservation, land development, resource management, visual assessment, parks & recreation and impact assessment, Alan integrates ecological studies with town planning and design. His particular skills in the assessment of landscape, visual impacts and conservation significance have led to integrated techniques for GIS-based evaluation which have won several PIA and AILA Awards, and he is an experienced expert witness before Queensland Courts.

Alan served on the Certification Board of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) for its first 14 years, chaired the CEnvP Board 2014-19, is an Honorary Life Member of EIANZ. He previously served as President and international representative of Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), chair of the International Landscape Architecture Alliance, President of the Australian Institute of Horticulture, chair of Building Design Professions (Qld), Queensland President of the Royal Australian Institute of Parks and Recreation (now Parks & Leisure Australia), on EIANZ Council and on the Management Committee of Environmental Defenders Office (Qld).

Alan was instrumental in developing certification or registration schemes in AILA, AIH and EIANZ, and is a Fellow of 4 Institutes. Alan's tertiary teaching experience includes visual assessment, horticulture, community consultation, landscape evaluation, impact assessment, ethics and environmental management, and he is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars.

Jon Womersley | Principal at Womersley Environmental Services and ADR Convenor at Land Court of Queensland

Jon is a Certified Environmental Practitioner with more than 30 years' experience advising on environmental and natural resource management, regulatory compliance, due diligence, community engagement and dispute resolution. He is a nationally accredited mediator with extensive experience in group facilitation and mediation services covering natural resources, family, neighbour, property, workplace, and community dispute resolution. He has practised in multiple jurisdictions with qualifications in natural resource management, agriculture, and teaching.

He is experienced in the environmental regulation of mining and gas extraction, mineral processing, heavy industry, port facilities, and other industries with environmental consequences and has overseen statutory and non-statutory regional environmental planning activities, and led teams engaged in developing and implementing codes of practice, regulatory standards and guidelines associated with environmental and land management.

Jon is a Life Member of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and its Past President (2013/2015); a Practitioner Member of the Resolution Institute, and a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders.

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