An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management

Striving for Sustainability

Stefan Schaltegger author Roger Burritt author Holger Petersen author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:1st Apr '03

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A comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It aims to become the standard textbook for courses examining how business can take the environment into account.

A comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It aims to become a key resource for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this subject for practitioners.

This book is designed to meet the urgent need for a comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It aims to become the standard textbook for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this increasingly multidisciplinary subject for practitioners.

Written by the internationally acknowledged experts Stefan Schaltegger and Roger Burritt (authors of the highly influential Contemporary Environmental Accounting) along with Holger Petersen, the book invites the reader to join in an exploration of the ways in which companies can engage in environmental management and why such engagement can be profitable for business. The reader is invited to: examine whether the contents reflect their own experience, takes their experience further, or opposes their own views; note which of the ideas presented are especially important, add to those ideas, or encourage a reaction (positive or negative); answer questions creatively (based on their own perspective of the issues); encourage themselves to be inspired by questions, which can be investigated further through other written sources of information, such as books you will be guided to through the bibliography, the Internet or the general media; and think about and plan the ways in which the knowledge provided can be implemented in your own situation.

The book is organised into four main sections. First, the fundamental ideas and linkages behind business management, the environment and sustainable development are briefly but clearly sketched. The second part of the book outlines the criteria against which environmentally oriented business management can be assessed and the fields of action in which success can be achieved. The third part presents a discussion and examples of strategies for environmental management, which are linked, in the fourth part, to the essential tools of environmental management, especially green marketing, environmental accounting and eco-control.

The book is full of case studies and examples related to the main contents of each chapter and each chapter provides a number of questions...

This wide-ranging introductory text puts the manager center-stage and the relationship between management and environmental issues at the very core of the book's many themes. It provides a comprehensive and succinct introduction and review of the world of corporate environmental management and the current issues in that world ... we have to see the academics teaching this and similar material in Business Schools and Universities. - Social and Environmental Accounting |

| This book provides a textbook-style exploration of the ways in which companies can engage in environmental management, and why engagement can be profitable for business. - Corporate Citizenship Briefing, July 2003 |

| This is one of the first texts to offer a comprehensive overview of the principles of corporate environmental management ... few readers will fail to find something new and useful here ... it succeeds in providing an integrated approach to corporate environmental management that will be of value to students and to practitioners. - Environment, June 2004

ISBN: 9781874719656

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 566g

384 pages