sustainability environmental management Articles
-
Achieving supply chain environment management: an exploratory study
The concept of collaborating with supply chain parties to improve manufacturing sustainability is referred to as Supply Chain Environmental Management (SCEM) or 'greening the supply chain'. The extant literature suggests the benefits of SCEM but offers no guidelines for its development and practice. Using case research that involved direct observation and systematic interviews with five ...
-
Challenges in the use of science for sustainable development
This paper summarises some of the challenges to science that are posed by the search for sustainability. These challenges are not only technical ones, such as more affordable or reliable equipment for health care, water quality control and refrigeration. There are also fundamental empirical and methodological challenges, such as complexity, irreversibility and uncertainty over the long term, that ...
-
The reverse logistics as an environmental tool integrated to environmental management system for an effective management of solid industrial waste
This work is a study that delimited areas such as environmental management and reverse logistics. It aims at demonstrating the possibility of integrating these processes within organisational environment, to prove that ran this way, they turn the management of industrial generated solid waste more effective and it will mitigate the negative impacts resulting from production activities to the ...
-
Optimal restrictions on vehicle use for urban sustainability for Mexico City
This paper describes and develops the conditions that make the demand side policy of vehicle use restrictions part of a cost-effective set of environmental control policies. Mexico City's experience with vehicle use restrictions is described and its failure analysed. It is argued that Mexico City took a step in the right direction, but failed to make the restrictions flexible, thereby making the ...
-
The evolution of institutions in transition
This paper aims at explaining the role and importance of the evolution of institutions for sustainable agri-environmental resources during the transition process by referring to examples of agri-environmental problem areas in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). It is often stated that the mere replacement of institutional structures in post socialist countries by EU institutions would ...
-
Competences for environmental performance in a Brazilian oil company
The objective of this research is to identify organisational competences that impact the environmental performance of organisations. The case analysed is the oil refining in Brazil. A case study is adopted as a research strategy, with a qualitative and a quantitative approach, using bibliographical and field research, including the use of a questionnaire followed by a descriptive statistics ...
-
The social impact of liberalisation of plastic bottles in Malta
This paper analyses the social impact of liberalisation of plastic bottles in Malta, wherein the system of returnable glass bottles has effectively been replaced by a system of disposable plastic bottles. The paper applies concepts such as Ulrich Beck's (1992) 'risk society', and Michael Cahill's (1994) 'consumer society' to the issue under research. A quantitative survey administered in two ...
-
Management systems for sustainable construction: integrating environmental, quality and safety management systems
The management systems implemented by contractors are paramount to encouraging sustainable construction. Evolving from developments in the manufacturing industries, a number of forward-looking contracting organisations are at the forefront of establishing Integrated Management Systems (IMS) within the UK. IMS can provide a framework for sustainable construction through the effective management of ...
-
“Local peoples’” and “visitors’” views on infrastructure and services in protected areas: a case study from Evros, Greece
This case study attempts to explore “local peoples’” and “visitors’” views about the existing infrastructure and the availability of the services of the two National Parks of Evros Prefecture. The purpose of the research is to find out any potential deficiencies which might be influencing “local peoples’” lives and “visitors’” travel experience. The sustainable use of natural resources and ...
-
Does green energy help firm performance?
Environmental protection and sustainability is an emerging management topic. However, it is not easy for a for–profit firm to assign financial resources to sustainability, particularly when it hampers financial performance. We use Fortune 500 firms and examine the impact of participation in the green power partnership programme and using higher–priced clean energy on firm financial performance. ...
-
Sustainability practices and promotion: websites of large US companies
This paper presents the results of a longitudinal survey of the websites of Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500 companies. Using impression management theory and ten organisational categories uncovered in prior research, we find that S&P 500 companies are increasing environmental sustainability efforts and have significantly promoted these efforts via their websites. There are dramatic differences ...
-
Landfilling, Waste-to-Energy, Recycling and Hazardous Waste
By investing in and using inventive waste technologies, landfill owners will mitigate the liability, demonstrate good community social responsibility, and most importantly, add value to their bottom line by ensuring stakeholders’ environmental sustainable financial risk management. We are rapidly starting to understand the environmental impact, space restrictions and the importance of ...
-
Waste recycling: local methods for successful interaction with small business
Environmental management practices are common in large companies, but rare in small businesses even though, collectively, their environmental footprint is substantially greater. There is, therefore, a crucial need to engage small businesses in practices that reduce their environmental impact and assist sustainability. However, the management of environmental issues in small business is the domain ...
-
Implications of local peoples' preferences in terms of income source and land use for Indonesia's national REDD–plus policy: evidence in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
This article tries to reveal the field reality in East Kalimantan, especially the preferences of villagers in terms of income source and land use, to ascertain the implications for Indonesia's national REDD–plus policy or one of the emerging regimes under UNFCCC. In forest lands, the villagers have no expectations for labour opportunities involving logging and planting trees in concession areas. ...
-
Natural environment and business reality: what encourages companies to take an action?
The present study examines the environment as a social issue that is conditioned by economic activities in a transcendental way. In this sense, maintaining a continued economic development would only be possible with the active participation of its main agents: the business companies. This study aims at revising the most important factors in the environmental compromise of companies and the most ...
-
Joint construction and appropriation of indicators by users, managers and scientists: the case study of Port-Cros and Porquerolles tourist frequentation observatory
Port-Cros, a national marine park, and its neighbouring island of Porquerolles are two French Mediterranean islands both managed by the Port-Cros National Park. Numerous visitors are attracted by their preserved environmental heritage. Thus, it is paramount for the Park Board to consider the consequences of the massive influx of sailors and tourists. A precise study of frequentation was started ...
-
Gestalteconomy: the economic bases of knowledge management
Conventional economic analyses are based on dogmas that are frequently out of phase with reality. It is thus very difficult to introduce technology, technological innovation and technical progress correctly into all the theoretical constructions derived from the application of these principles. The same applies to the consideration of pollution and the depletion of natural resources. These ...
-
Achieving sustainability through environmental innovation: the role of SMEs
In this paper, technological and managerial innovation are seen as the dual keys to achieving environmental sustainability. Much research on environmental sustainability has focused upon the role of large organisations. Traditionally, they have been perceived as major contributors to environmental degradation and their task is to find innovative solutions to minimise pollution. However, small and ...
-
Contaminated land: bank credit risk for small and medium size UK enterprises
With the implementation of the environmental legislation in April 2000 in the UK, the paper examines how provisions relating to contaminated land might affect loan decision-making by financial lending institutions to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The potential for a borrower or lender to incur liability for the cleaning up of contaminated land is now real. An insight into how banks ...
-
Small-scale eco-industrial networking: interorganisational collaboration to yield system wide benefits in communities
Eco-Industrial Networking (EIN) supports collaborative partnerships, or networks, between businesses, local governments, and the wider community aiming at more efficient and ecological resource use. EIN is the application of industrial ecology, emphasising systems, food chains, and life cycles to maximise resource efficiencies and minimise environmental impacts. EIN has traditionally focused on ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you