Corporate Environmental Management 1

Systems and strategies
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-85383-560-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of business in safeguarding the environment. It introduces the general issues and context, and then gives a detailed, critical examination of all the key tools of corporate environmental management, including environmental management systems and standards; environmental policies, guidelines and charters; environmental auditing; life-cycle assessment; the measurement of environmental performance; and environmental reporting. The book emphasises systems-based environmental management, and also considers how such an approach might be integrated within local authorities and small and medium-sized companies. It then extends the systems approach to cover continuous environmental improvement, building a corporate environmental profile and moving towards sustainability.

Written in a clear and informative style, with checklists, explanatory notes and references for further reading, the book draws on the existing environmental strategies of a number of leading firms. Each chapter is written by contributors involved in ongoing research and consultancy in their specialist area.

This is the most authoritative guide available to contemporary approaches to corporate environmental management. Its 'how to' focus makes it essential reading - not only for students and researchers, but for managers faced with the challenge of introducing environmental management strategies into their own organizations.

RICHARD WELFORD is Professor of Corporate Environmental Management and Director of the Centre for Corporate Environmental Management at the University of Huddersfield. He is also Professor of Sustainable Management at the Norwegian School of Management and a Director of ERP Environment. He is co-author of The Eartl15can Reader in Business and the Environment (1996), author of Corporate Environmentalll.1anagement 2 (1997) and Hijacking Environmentalism (1997) and editor of the journal Business Strategy and the Environment.

Originally published in 1998

Autoren/Hrsg.

Welford, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition
About the Contributors
Part 1: The Context of Corporate Environmental Management
1. Environmental Issues and Corporate Environmental Management
Richard Welford
2. Corporate Strategy, Competitiveness and the Environment
Richard Welford
Part 2: The Tools of Corporate Environmental Management
3. Environmental Management Systems
Alan Netherwood
4. The Standardization of Environmental Management Systems: IS014001, IS014004 and EMAS
Richard Starkey
5. Environmental Policies
Michael Brophy
6. Environmental Guidelines and Charters
Michael Brophy
7. Environmental Auditing
Richard Welford
8. Life Cycle Assessment
Richard Welford
9. Measuring Environmental Performance
C William Young
10. Environmental Reporting
Michael Brophy and Richard Starkey
Part 3: Wider Applications of the Systems Based Approach
11. The EMS in the SME
Donal O'Laoir-e and Richard Welford
12. Local Economic Development and Environmental Management: A Systems Approach
Richard Welford
13. The Role of Environmental Management Systems in Local Government
Alan Netherwood and Mark Shayler
14. Beyond Environmentalism and Towards the Sustainable Organization
Richard Welford and David Jones
Appendix
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Welford, Richard