environmental management Articles
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Can Anyone Be an Environmental Manager?
This column explores the current condition of the EHS profession - and raises a number of troubling questions that have yet to be openly addressed within our professional ranks. The problem was summed up in a headline I saw recently saying, "The EHS profession has skidded down the food chain." In the jargon of marketing, the environmental profession has no identifiable brand and barrier for ...
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Environmental management accounting and environmental management in manufacturing industries in Uganda
Given the importance of the environment and the attention environmental issues are currently receiving from public and private organisations, it has become crucial for especially manufacturing industries, to consider the impact of their activities on the environment. This study aims at finding out what actions, if any, manufacturing industries in Uganda are taking to enhance effective ...
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Reconciling different approaches to environmental management
Environmental management is often regarded as the domain of the natural scientist with decision criteria developed within strict methodological boundaries. The argument is put forward that economic criteria have tried to emulate scientific methodology to the exclusion of important socio-economic factors. Concern over the monetary valuation of the environment has lead to calls for ...
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Integrating Environmental Management Into Business Functions
ABSTRACT This paper describes a trend in environmental management that involves the integration of environmental considerations into business functions, and provides an example of a tool that is being used to facilitate that integration. The increased scrutiny of companies’ environmental performance in the last few years has resulted in the recognition that environmental issues need to be ...
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Ping´s Environmental Management System
In the fall of 2000, PING, Inc. was awarded certification to ISO 9001 and 14001. Today, PING, best known for its custom fit, custom-built golf clubs, competes in a $4billion golf equipment industry that is highly innovative and competitive. In this atmosphere, continuous improvement is a must - especially in the realm of environmental ...
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Provision of decision support in environmental management
Successful design of environmental decision support systems (EDSS) depends on the accurate understanding of relevant behavioural and decision-making processes in the human mind. EDSS could provide variable types of assistance in various decision steps. Issue definition and criteria setting require articulation of the problem by universal decision frameworks and the Socratic method. Option ...
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Environmental Management Tools for SMEs: A Handbook
Abstract This handbook looks at the way SMEs can use environmental management to improve their business performance. It looks at environmental management systems (including ISO 14001 and EMAS) and at a number of other tools that firms can use to manage their environmental performance. This product, “Environmental Management Tools for SMEs”, prepared by Richard Starkey, Huddersfield University, ...
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Environmental Management Systems: In Pursuit of Continuous Improvement
This month, EM explores the world of environmental management systems (EMSs), with three in-depth feature articles. With its broad organizational reach, cutting across all aspects of the environmental (and often, health and safety) business, the familiar EMS “plando-check-act” cycle has a growing number of companies in search of continuous improvement. To view the full ...
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National Occupational Standards for Environmental Management
The environmental manager is an individual who oversees the process of environmental management by monitoring and coordinating stewardship of the ...
By ECO Canada
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The state of environmental education in Polish and Czech universities
An appropriate university education is necessary to improve our environment. In consideration of this, an analysis of the syllabi of the Polish and Czech universities, focusing on the topics of environmental management and the protection of nature, was conducted by the International Graduate School IHI Zittau's Faculty of Business Administration. The results of this analysis can be compared with ...
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Investment and environmental management: the interaction between environmentally responsible investment and environmental management practice
Do investors, such as environmentally responsible funds, influence firms' decisions to implement environmental management practices? We present the results of a survey analysing the implementation standards of environmental management practices subject to the influence of environmentally responsible investment funds. Results indicate that firms listed in environmentally responsible funds perform ...
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Working Effectively with your Folks at the Plants
This article gives you some practical ideas on how to interact with your colleagues at the plants. Let's start by taking a hard look at the plant manager. The degree to which your plant maintains its environmental compliance status depends largely on the attitude of the plant manager. To view the full article please click here (PDF - 102 KB) ...
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Technological change and environmental management in industry
Environmental management and sustainable development are at the top of the global agenda. In conjunction with the principles of equity and ethics, the implementation of sustainable development has become one of the most important challenges before the world community. Technology lies at the heart of this concern. Industry, in turn, is the largest user and producer of technology, and it produces ...
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Tools for environmental management
Environmental management by industry requires commitment from the top down in an organisation if it is to succeed. Using his own company, Union Carbide, as a basis, the author identifies a number of key steps in implementing a strategy of environmental management. By undergoing a continuing process of improvement internally and participating in the regulatory process, industry has the tools to ...
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Business Intelligence and Environmental Management
The integration of Business Intelligence tools with an organization’s Environmental Management System or EMS and lead to significant cost reductions and more effective implementation of environmental goals. Business Intelligence tools are used for measuring operational performance. From an EMS perspective, BI tools now provide an overarching look into the enterprise’s performances. Doesn’t ...
By Vintara
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The rise of the ethical consumer — implications for environmental management
The season of goodwill is nearly upon us, but in purchasing gifts for our friends and family how many of us will make the connection between what we buy and its relationship to brand strategy, ethical consumerism and environmental management? Recent research shows that British shoppers will spend more than £2 billion in 2006 on ethical foods, eg Fairtrade, free range, and local or organic ...
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Environmental management: An agenda for action
A business agenda for sustainable development is described, where the main thrust is to be the manufacture of durable and recyclable goods by processes which minimize the production of waste and polluting emissions. This is to be achieved through education, research and innovation with a more open dialogue between producers and society.Keywords: recycling technology, sustainable development, ...
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Organisational mechanisms in environmental management: an evolutionary analysis confronted with empirical facts
In this paper, we analyse the development of corporate environmental management systems through the core elements of the emerging evolutionary theory of the firm. The environmental management process means a process by which organisations change their structures and cultures as a result of an interlinked effort of individual learning and organisational transformation. We propose that effective ...
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Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14000
' Environmental management systems (EMS), such as ISO14000, are seen as mechanisms for achieving improvements in environmental performance and for supporting the trade prospects of 'clean' firms. The potential advantages of EMS are clear but the adoption of ISO14000 is very recent and practical issues are emerging, such as the need for an emphasis on performance improvement, simplification of ...
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How far are developing countries from the call of ecological tax reform? A review of environmental fiscal policy for Kenya
The main objective of this paper is to determine whether the ecological tax reform paradigm that hitherto is employed by a section of industrialised countries as an instrument of environmental management has potential applications in developing countries. The paper focuses on a case study of environmental management policy in Kenya and reveals that there is strong evidence of global environmental ...
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