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Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning

A Guide to Meaningful Engagement

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  • © 2020

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Authors:
  1. Margaret O’Gorman

    1. Wildlife Habitat Council, Washington, USA

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  • A unique approach that will educate both corporations and nonprofits looking to undertake environmental partnerships
  • Margaret O’Gorman has extensive experience working with corporations and nonprofits such as General Motors, Shell Oil, and Ducks Unlimited to solve business needs through environmentally beneficial projects
  • Features case studies for mid-sized and small companies, emphasizing inexpensive yet effective programs

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. An Evolving Relationship

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 1-22

  3. Understanding Business Drivers

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 23-57

  4. Scale and Perspective

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 59-81

  5. The Process

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 83-115

  6. Obstacles and How to Overcome Them

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 117-148

  7. Monitoring, Metrics, and Recognition

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 149-173

  8. Education

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 175-201

  9. Climate Change

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 203-225

  10. Building a Culture of Corporate Conservation

    • Margaret O’Gorman
    Pages 227-234

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 235-262
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About this book

Industries that drive economic growth and support our comfortable modern lifestyles have exploited natural resources to do so. But now there’s growing understanding that business can benefit from a better relationship with the environment.

Leading corporations have begun to leverage nature‑based remediation, restoration, and enhanced lands management to meet a variety of business needs, such as increasing employee engagement and establishing key performance indicators for reporting and disclosures. Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning offers fresh insights for corporations and environmental groups looking to create mutually beneficial partnerships that use conservation action to address business challenges and realize meaningful environmental outcomes. Myriad case studies featuring programs from habitat restoration to environmental educational initiatives at companies like Bridgestone USA, General Motors, and CRH Americas are included to help spark new ideas.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wildlife Habitat Council, Washington, USA

    Margaret O’Gorman

About the author

Margaret O’Gorman operates at the intersection of business and nature. As President of the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC), she helps companies find value in natural resources conservation and mainstream biodiversity across operations. She consults with multinational corporations to develop integrated strategies to implement conservation projects that meet business needs and, in so doing, enhance ecosystems, connect communities and engage employees. As president of WHC, she led the design of its signature Conservation Certification recognition, a voluntary sustainability standard which serves to define corporate conservation worldwide.

In her writings she focuses on pragmatic solutions and conservation implementation and highlights the problems of too much planning and not enough action. She is a proponent of simplifying approaches to conservation and opening the door to efforts that restore broken places, enhance existing ecosystems and return healthy biodiversity to all places.She has spoken before a wide array of industry groups across sectors including mining, building materials, oil and gas and, manufacturing. She has addressed the Business and Biodiversity forum at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP13, the Smithsonian Institute’s Conservation Optimism Summit, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Cement Sustainability Initiative, and Ireland’s National Biodiversity Conference.

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