This work encourages business managers to take account of the needs of the threatened planet and dwindling natural resources, while simultaneously redefining the commercial interests involved.; The book highlights opportunities for and threats to sustainable development. It leads the reader through the morass of existing and proposed regulations and guidelines which cover the areas encompassed by the term environmental management: the use of hazardous chemicals; toxic wastes and emissions; occupational health and safety; and environmental impact analysis.; Completely revised and updated, this.

Now in its second edition, Rogene Buchholz's text offers a managerial perspective of the principles of environmental management, rather than focusing on ecological aspects.

Umweltmanagement ist eine Mischung aus technologischem Know-How, wirtschaftlichem Scharfsinn und Kenntnis des gesetzlichen Rahmens. Alle diese Themenkreise behandelt dieser Band ausführlich und präzise. (05/99)

Anxiety about the environment is on the rise for today's businesses. Firms large and small are feeling increased pressure from government regulations, environmental organizations, and community groups to ensure that business practices respect our natural resources. According to Forest Reinhardt, executives should stop delegating these issues to scientific or social experts, and instead seize the opportunity to use environmental strategies as part of their business planning-in ways that can increase profits for the bottom line. In Down to Earth, Reinhardt helps managers find ways to accommodate demands for environmental performance and deliver superior returns to their shareholders. According to Reinhardt, responsible and realistic solutions to environmental problems are surprisingly accessible. Down to Earth explains how executives can take familiar business principles of strategy, finance, and marketing and use them to improve their management of environmental problems. Colorful examples from businesses as diverse as Patagonia, Xerox, and Monsanto show how leading companies use this commonsense approach to turn environmental concerns into powerful competitive advantages. The first book to offer a practical, reality-based view of the relationship between the environment and business practice, Down to Earth will help executives take advantage of the valuable opportunities for linking their environmental strategies with shareholder value.

This core text provides a complete breakdown of specific business functions as they relate to environmental legislation and standards, and competitive and social pressure. As the principal text for a wide range of management courses, this book presents the situation faced by industry, analyses the legislative measures being introduced and describes the changes required by business to conform to the new standards of environmental performance. It provides a complete picture of the integration of legislation and business policy to put greener management into practice.

This book deals with issues and concerns for the human environment in the developing countries incorporating natural processes and systems, pollution removal technology, energy conservation, environmental impact assessment process, economics, culture, political structure and societal equity from a management point of view. Solutions to the emerging problems of the environment need a paradigmatic shift in approach from a process based model to a socio-political-economic model. Hence environmental management should involve equality and control over use of the finite natural resources and the balance between Earth’s biocapacity and humanity’s ecological footprint. Changes such as green technologies, human population stabilization and adoption of ecologically harmonious lifestyles are absolutely essential and will require redesigning of political institutions, policies and revisiting forgotten skills of sustainable practices of environmental management. These challenges should centre on environment governance using the concepts of common property, equity and security. This book is relevant for academics, professionals, administrators and policy makers who are concerned with various aspects of environment management and governance.

This text examines how businesses and the environment interact. It is ideal for students with no previous knowledge of business studies. It examines in depth the ways in which business, industry, the physical environment, environmentalism and social change have evolved alongside each other. The authors use boxed case-studies to highlight how business practice and the environment interact at levels from local to global, with examples from multinational companies, government bodies, national charities and local enterprise. The book also contains a large number of informative diagrams. The case studies include: * Shell Oil's environmental policy * railways and the industrial revolution * the British National Trust's business enterprises * Sainsbury's approach to organic foods * Australia's landcare scheme * changing trends in retailing * Brent Spar * big game hunting and conservation.