Implementing environmental management systems in industries along the Atlantic coast of Cameroon: drivers, benefits and barriers
✍ Scribed by Dieudonne Alemagi; Pius M. Oben; Jürgen Ertel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1535-3958
- DOI
- 10.1002/csr.106
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The deleterious impact of industrial activities on safety health and environmental quality has motivated industries to adopt environmental management systems (EMSs). This paper examines the implementation of EMSs in industries that interact with the Atlantic coast of Cameroon, which has been plagued with effluents emanating from industrial activities.
Through a questionnaire based survey that was conducted from January 2005 to June 2005 with all the industries along the Atlantic coast of Cameroon, this paper seeks to address the motivating factors, implementation hurdles and benefits accrued by these industries as a result of implementing EMSs. Although enormous benefits have been accrued as a result of EMS implementation, a plethora of hurdles still persist in the realm of EMS implementation in these industries. Against this background, this paper concludes by prescribing a number of recommendations that could be used to promote the implementation of EMSs in industries that interact with the Atlantic coast of Cameroon. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.