Elements of Environmental Management / Werner Antweiler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antweiler, Werner, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Strategic planning--Environmental aspects.

Strategic planning.

Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.

Business enterprises.

Environmental protection--Economic aspects.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

9781442616790

1442616792

9781442616783

1442616784

OCLC:

1046612534