Cargando…
Elements of Environmental Management /
As businesses face an increasing array of environmental challenges, including climate change, air and water pollution, and solid waste management, environmental management has become an increasingly important area of expertise. Elements of Environmental Management is an interdisciplinary textbook fo...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2014]
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_106579 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905054120.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 140929s2014 onc o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781442616783 | ||
| 020 | |z 9781442616790 | ||
| 020 | |z 9781442626133 | ||
| 020 | |z 9781442648357 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)891590938 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Antweiler, Werner, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Elements of Environmental Management / |c Werner Antweiler. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Buffalo : |b University of Toronto Press, |c [2014] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2023 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2014] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (416 pages): |b illustrations | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1.1. What is environmental management? -- 1.2. The systems approach -- 1.3. What is sustainability? -- 1.3.1. Intergenerational trade-offs -- 1.3.2. Exhaustible resources? -- 1.3.3. Ecological footprint -- 1.3.4. Macro measure: Adjusted net savings -- 1.3.5. Micro measure: Entropy -- 1.4. Which companies should care the most? -- 1.5. Corporate social responsibility -- 1.5.1. Characteristics of CSR -- 1.5.2. Do stakeholders recognize CSR? -- 1.5.3. The economics of CSR -- 1.5.4. CSR strategy -- 1.6. Summary -- 1.7. Study questions and exercises -- 2.1. Energy -- 2.2. Fresh water -- 2.3. Air pollution -- 2.4. Waste management -- 2.5. Transportation -- 2.6. Noise -- 2.7. Climate change -- 2.8. Summary -- 2.9. Study questions and exercises -- 3.1. Basic economic concept -- 3.1.1. Pollutants and externalities -- 3.1.2. Public goods and property rights -- 3.1.3. Efficiency and fairness -- 3.2. Policy instruments -- 3.2.1. Instrument choice criteria. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 3.2.2. Technology and emission standards -- 3.2.3. Environmental taxes -- 3.2.4. Tradeable emission permits -- 3.2.5. Hybrid regimes -- 3.2.6. Subsidies -- 3.2.7. Second-best approaches -- 3.2.8. Static and dynamic efficiency -- 3.2.9. Dealing with uncertainty -- 3.3. Environmental markets in action -- 3.4. Valuing the environment -- 3.4.1. Revealed-preference approaches -- 3.4.2. Stated-preference approaches -- 3.5. Cost-benefit analysis -- 3.6. International trade repercussions -- 3.7. Summary -- 3.8. Study questions -- 4.1. Concepts -- 4.2. Goal definition and scoping -- 4.3. Inventory analysis -- 4.4. Impact analysis -- 4.5. Improvement analysis -- 4.6. Environmental input-output analysis -- 4.7. Summary -- 4.8. Study questions and exercises -- 5.1. Pollution as a legal concept -- 5.2. Environmental law in Canada -- 5.2.1. Federal jurisdiction -- 5.2.2. Provincial jurisdiction -- 5.2.3. Municipal jurisdiction -- 5.2.4. Interjurisdictional cooperation -- 5.2.5. Aboriginal rights. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 5.3. Environmental law in the United States -- 5.3.1. The Clean Air Act -- 5.3.2. The Clean Water Act -- 5.3.3. Hazardous pollutants and the superfund -- 5.4. Civil liability for environmental harm -- 5.5. Corporate and personal duties -- 5.5.1. The Canadian legal context -- 5.5.2. The US legal context -- 5.6. Damage, compensation, and remediation -- 5.7. International environmental treaties -- 5.7.1. International law -- 5.7.2. The GATT, the WTO, and NAFTA -- 5.7.3. Environmental border adjustments -- 5.8. Summary -- 5.9. Study questions and exercises -- 6.1. Objectives and process overview -- 6.1.1. The EIA process in the United States -- 6.1.2. The EIA process in Canada -- 6.2. Screening -- 6.3. Scoping -- 6.4. Impact prediction -- 6.4.1. Fixed-point scoring -- 6.4.2. The analytic hierarchy process -- 6.5. Impact management -- 6.5.1. Avoidance and mitigation -- 6.5.2. Remediation techniques -- 6.6. Summary -- 6.7. Study questions and exercises -- 7.1. EMS components. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 7.2. Code of conduct -- 7.3. Environmental management plan -- 7.3.1. Pollution prevention (P2) plan -- 7.3.2. Environmental emergency (E2) plan -- 7.4. Environmental audit -- 7.5. ISO 14000 -- 7.5.1. The certification process -- 7.5.2. The adoption decision -- 7.5.3. Effectiveness -- 7.6. Summary -- 7.7. Study questions -- 8.1. Strategy space -- 8.2. Green innovation and technology -- 8.2.1. Process innovation -- 8.2.2. Product innovation and differentiation -- 8.2.3. Servicizing -- 8.3. Green sourcing -- 8.4. Green marketing -- 8.4.1. Green branding -- 8.4.2. Eco-labelling -- 8.4.3. The greenwashing trap -- 8.4.4. Green price premium -- 8.4.5. The credibility gap -- 8.5. Stakeholders and the role of ENGOs -- 8.6. Overcoming nimbyism -- 8.7. Managing adversity -- 8.7.1. Environmental risk management -- 8.7.2. Crisis management -- 8.8. Summary -- 8.9. Study questions and exercises -- 9.1. Air pollution -- 9.1.1. Dispersion -- 9.1.2. Control strategies. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 9.1.3. Abit6thent devices: Particulates -- 9.1.4. Abatement devices: Gases -- 9.1.5. Specific pollutants -- 9.2. Water pollution -- 9.2.1. Types and sources -- 9.2.2. Wastewater treatment -- 9.3. Solid waste management -- 9.3.1. Solid waste streams -- 9.3.2. Landfills -- 9.3.3. Incineration -- 9.3.4. Hazardous waste -- 9.4. Summary -- 9.5. Study questions and exercises -- 10.1. Energy supply, energy demand, and Hubbert's peak -- 10.2. Coal, oil and gas -- 10.3. Nuclear power -- 10.4. Levellized energy cost -- 10.5. Renewable energy -- 10.6. Smart power grids and super grids -- 10.7. Energy conservation and energy efficiency -- 10.7.1. Technology -- 10.7.2. Conservation measures -- 10.8. Summary -- 10.9.study questions and exercises -- 11.1. Mining -- 11.1.1. Economics of exhaustible resources -- 11.1.2. Backstop technologies -- 11.1.3. Recycling -- 11.1.4. Environmental challenges -- 11.2. Forestry -- 11.2.1. Optimal forest rotation -- 11.2.2. Management practices. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 11.2.3. Pulp and paper mills -- 11.3. Fisheries -- 11.3.1. Fisheries economics -- 11.3.2. Fisheries management and public policy -- 11.4. Summary -- 11.5. Study questions and exercises -- 12.1. The time horizon -- 12.2. Population growth -- 12.3. Survival challenges -- 12.4. Long-term power sources -- 12.5. Long-term mineral resources -- 12.6. The sustainability agenda -- 12.7. Study questions. | |
| 520 | |a As businesses face an increasing array of environmental challenges, including climate change, air and water pollution, and solid waste management, environmental management has become an increasingly important area of expertise. Elements of Environmental Management is an interdisciplinary textbook for students and business professionals that integrates corporate environmental strategy with environmental economics, environmental law, and environmental engineering. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Strategic planning |x Environmental aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01134383 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Industrial management |x Environmental aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00971283 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Environmental protection |x Economic aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00913351 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Business enterprises |x Environmental aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00842556 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Organizational Behavior. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Management Science. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Management. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Industrial Management. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Environnement |x Protection |x Aspect economique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Entreprises |x Aspect de l'environnement. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Planification strategique |x Aspect de l'environnement. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Gestion d'entreprise |x Aspect de l'environnement. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Environmental protection |x Economic aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Business enterprises |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Strategic planning |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Industrial management |x Environmental aspects. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/106579/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||