Mulvihill / Ali Environmental Management

Critical thinking and emerging practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-48026-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

The practice of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to new policy, regulation and public concern about environmental issues. EM has undergone many changes and improvements since then, progressing from a reactive, compliance-based focus toward, in leading cases, practices reflecting strong commitment sustainability. And yet, EM remains, for the most part, a conservative field, largely reactive, unimaginative, and ill-equipped to deal with the complex and highly uncertain implications of the ecological crisis.

This new book offers a rigorous critique of conventional EM and explores alternative ideas, frameworks and approaches that are currently considered "fringe", but which have the potential to transform the practice of EM. These new approaches are more flexible and robust, and better equipped to address future environmental problems of scale and severity previously unforeseen.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental management, environmental planning, resource management, and environmental assessment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulvihill, Peter

Ali, S. Harris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Context: Challenges facing Environmental Management 3. Drivers of Change: Key Forces Influencing New Directions in EM 4. Conventional Environmental Management: Origins, Evolution, Characteristics, Critique 5. Current state of Fringe Environmental Management: Theory, Practice, Limitations, Gaps 6. Theoretical Foundations of Emerging, Alternative EM Practice (Part 1) 7. Theoretical Foundation of Emerging, Alternative EM Practice (Part 2) 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Mulvihill is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada.

S. Harris Ali is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada.