Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Chris Barrow

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Series: Routledge Environmental Management Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Environmental Management is a broad and rapidly expanding field, crucial to the well-being of humans and the maintenance of environmental quality. Human impact on the environment is causing widespread concern and successful management is vital for maintaining the Earths biodiversity. Environmental Management: Principles and Practice sets out guidelines for the formulation of environmentally-sound development policies which seek the best possible environmental option to promote sustainable development. It draws together the common themes which run through the various fields of environmental management and areas of application which include: the precautionary principle; the polluter-pays principle; a multi-disciplinary and anticipatory approach; the goal of sustainable development; assessment of risks, hazards and impacts; and environmental stewardship. The author stresses how environmental on the management may be pursued by individuals, companies, governments, NGOs and international bodies such as the UN Environmental Programme.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and boxes......Page 8
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Environmental management fundamentals and goals......Page 28
Environmental management;business and law......Page 40
Standards, monitoring, modelling, eco-auditing and environmental management systems......Page 70
Environmental management and economics......Page 86
Environmental risk management, impact, hazard and risk assessment......Page 104
Environmental management and science......Page 138
Environmental management, environmentalism and social science......Page 162
Ecosystem management......Page 180
Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations......Page 198
Pollution and waste management......Page 216
Participants in environmental management......Page 246
Environmental management approaches......Page 260
The way ahead......Page 272
References......Page 284
Index......Page 332