Effective Environmental Management

Striking a balance between protecting the environment and ensuring long-term financial sustainability is critical to an organization's success. This text is a guide to integrating environmental concerns into overall business management and includes a series of case studies from both the public and private sector. Major topics include: defining outcomes for environmental management activities; the role of structured management systems in achieving and ensuring environmental performance; practical issues to be addressed in the design, development and implementation of a system of environmental management; achieving business improvements through effective environmental management; and assessing the outcomes of expenditures on environmental protection.