ABSTRACT
Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development.
This comprehensively updated second edition explores the nature and role of environmental management, covering key principles, practices, tools, strategies and policies, offers a thorough yet understandable introduction, and points to further in-depth coverage. Among the key themes covered are:
- sustainable development
- proactive approaches
- the precautionary principle
- the ‘polluter pays’ principle
- the need for humans to be less vulnerable and more adaptable.
Reflecting the expansion and evolution of the field, this revised edition focuses strongly on sustainable development. There has been extensive restructuring to ensure the book is accessible to those unfamiliar with environmental management and it now includes greater coverage of topics including key resources under stress, environmental management tools, climate change and urban environmental management.
With rapid expansion and development of the subject it is easy for those embarking on a course of study to become disorientated, but with its well-structured coverage, effective illustrations, and foundation for further, more-focused interest, this book is easily accessible to all.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|160 pages
Theory, principles and key concepts
chapter 1|17 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|19 pages
Environmental management fundamentals and goals
chapter 3|38 pages
Environmental management and science
chapter 5|32 pages
Environmental management, business and law
chapter 6|18 pages
Participants in environmental management
part II|200 pages
Practice
chapter 7|13 pages
Environmental management approaches
chapter 8|28 pages
Standards, monitoring, modelling, auditing and co-ordination
chapter 9|31 pages
Proactive assessment, prediction and forecasting
chapter 10|34 pages
Key resources
chapter 11|20 pages
Global challenges
chapter 12|23 pages
Pollution and waste management
chapter 13|21 pages
Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations
chapter 14|12 pages
Tourism and environmental management
chapter 15|16 pages
Urban environmental management
part III|15 pages
The Future