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ICEM:
The International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM) was established in 1999 to help governments and communities in building capacity
to use natural resources sustainably and to maintain environmental quality. ICEM operates from offices in Brisbane and Hanoi and has specialists in environmental
institution building and strategic planning, environmental economics, environmental assessment, protected areas, biodiversity conservation, GIS and modeling.
The Centre also draws from an active network of experts and organisations in forging partnerships to address critical conservation and development problems.
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Goal of ecologically sustainable development:
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Development that improves the total quality of life, both now and in the future, in a way that maintains the ecological processes on
which life depends. Ecological sustainable development aims:
- To protect biological diversity and maintain essential ecological processes and life-support systems;
- To enhance individual and community well-being by following a path of economic development that safeguards
natural systems and the welfare of future generations;
- To provide for equity within and between generations.
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ICEM works through partnerships:
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ICEM builds and draws its strength from partnerships. ICEM acts as a catalyst and facilitator in promoting collaboration around agreed
goals and projects. Building active partnerships among non government organizations in support of governments is a vital part of the ICEM mission. Also, nurturing
effective working relations across different arms and levels of government is essential to every ICEM supported initiative. ICEM has a global network of institutional
technical partners that have worked together on collaborative activities.
For ICEM, sharing in responsibility, technical capacities and resources in mutually supportive and well managed ways is an essential ingredient to making process in
ecologically sustainable development. ICEM works to promote and realise this approach in all its activities.
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ICEM promotes ecologically
sustainable development.
ICEM works to achieve ecologically sustainable development which involves:
- protecting biological diversity and maintaining essential ecological processes;
- integrating economic and environmental goals in policies and activities;
- ensuring that environmental assets are properly valued;
- providing for equity within and between generations;
- dealing cautiously with risk and irreversibility; and
- recognising the global dimension of production and consumption.
ICEM encourages changes
in the nature of production and consumption.
ICEM encourages changes in the nature of production and consumption so that they can better satisfy human needs while using fewer raw
materials and producing less waste. The key to ICEM's work lies in promoting structures, tools and mechanisms for integrating environment and development considerations
in decision-making.
ICEM focuses on Asia.
ICEM works from local to global levels but has a special focus on Asia, and in particular, the Mekong Region for testing and demonstrating sustainable
development solutions. Over the past ten years ICEM specialists have worked in more than 14 countries of Asia, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR,
Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
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