ABSTRACT

Corporate Environmental Management, Second Edition, provides environmental industry executives, the investment community, and students a basis for measuring corporate environmental activities and standing. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the technical, cost, and regulatory issues that environmental managers face. Sustainable development, conservation environmental science, and emissions trading are examined, as well as issues such as RCRA and CERCLA hazardous and chemical waste management. This new edition is updated throughout and adds a chapter on the newer global environmental guidelines and regulations (Paris Climate Agreement, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Trans-Pacific Partnerships (TPP)).

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|3 pages

Environmental Management Assessment

chapter 3|4 pages

Lines of Inquiry

chapter 4|9 pages

Assessment Model and Analytical Framework

chapter 5|5 pages

Internal Survey

chapter 6|11 pages

Corporate Commitment

chapter 7|7 pages

Communication

chapter 8|13 pages

Functional Implementation

chapter 9|20 pages

Measurement Systems

chapter 10|11 pages

Benchmark Survey

chapter 11|8 pages

External Survey

chapter 12|7 pages

Natural Resource Damage Assessment

Proactive Strategies

chapter 13|7 pages

Environmental Risk Assessment Issues

chapter 14|13 pages

Emergency Response Analysis

chapter 15|10 pages

Corporate Health and Safety System

chapter 17|7 pages

Global Warming

chapter 18|25 pages

Assessment of International Trends

chapter 19|3 pages

Summary