SMI Seminar Series
Event Details
- Date:
- Thursday, 08 October 2015 - Thursday, 08 October 2015
- Time:
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Room:
- Level 4 Seminar Room
- UQ Location:
- Sir James Foots Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Miss Hannah Fry
- Phone:
- 3346 4241
- Email:
- h.fry@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Sustainable Minerals Institute
Event Description
- Full Description:
- This week Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute, Prof Chris Moran will present a seminar on Value seeking: Is
the definition of productivity too narrow to protect and grow value?.
Often the business case for investment in activities delivering to sustainability goals is stated in terms of value.
Value can be created, destroyed and/or protected as a result of decisions to make the investments (or not). In recent
times, with lower commodity prices, language has shifted from statements of value in a broad context towards a focus
on ‘shareholder value’ from a productivity stance. In this seminar I will look at the definition of
productivity and question whether the definition as stated, and the consequential focus of mining company decisions
and actions, is commensurate with where value to shareholders is derived. I will use a hierarchical framework of
sustainable development and operating sustainably, previously presented, and treat this hierarchy as a ‘value seeking
tree’. The metaphor being invoked is that of the fabled ‘money tree’. Professor Chris Moran is
the Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia.
Previously, he was the Founding Director of SMI‘s Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, which conducts research towards achieving
sustainable water management in the sector. Professor Moran has published widely in the scientific literature and
broader media. He serves on various government panels and committees, as well as UQ boards. He was a Director of the
International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC), and has had formal advising roles for state and federal
governments on nutrient management, groundwater, coal seam gas and underground coal gasification.
Directions to UQ
- Google Map:
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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