The main current challenges include issues of how to take care of our natural environment in the current times of a long-term and all-encompassing crisis. Human life depends on nature. At the same time the biggest economic problems and costs tend to be exposed together with the topic of nature conservation. On the other hand the health and well-being of all citizens of a single location, nation or the planet are tackled.
After the growth rate used to be three percent per millennium until 1829, in pre-industrial times, it grew to 5.500 (55 times) over the recent close to two centuries. After 1820, on average, every citizen is 17 times more reach, there are six time more humans who consume beyond 30 times more energy and emit every hour 4 millions tons of CO2 in the atmosphere, cut down 1.500 hectares of woods, and put in our soil 1.7 million tons of nitrates. In only six decades after the Second World War there are 2.5 time more humans, using seven times more natural resources. Though, the Planet Earth is no bigger, but increasingly depleted.
We humans have endangered our-selves: we cannot live without a healthy nature. We always impact the nature, mostly damaging it: the nature can live without humans, but humans cannot live without nature and its resources.
The 5th international conference SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CURRENT CHALLENGES 2010 titled »THE NATURE AND HUMANS« that will take place in Maribor on 11th and 12th March 2010 in facilities of the Štajerska gospodarska zbornica, will tackle many crucial issues. Beyond 60 authors with beyond 50 contributions will participate, both from Slovenia and abroad. There is a possibility to coorperate in plenary talks and discussion groups with distinguished consultants, professionals, experiences practitioners, Ph.D.-s and researchers from 12 countries. We will look at various aspects of social responsibility concerning the nature preservation. Successful Slovenian companies will present cases of good practices, so will foreigners.
Readiness of enterprises to face the crises and their search for potential solutions is able to help them in their existence and further development in the market; hence, participate! We will inform about key-novelties that can be used in the business and other practice; they will be collected on the one location. Everyone can expose ideas, dilemmas, views to speakers and participants of the 5th IRDO conference.
For Registration and more information visit http://www.irdo.si/. The number of participants is limited.
Contact:
Anita Hrast,
Manager of IRDO Institute,
Head of the Conference Organization committee
DDr. Matjaž Mulej, Prof. Emeritus, UM EPF,
Head of the experts committee of IRDO,
Head of the Conference Program committee