ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an understanding of the role of eco-efficiency information management in corporate environmental management. This chapter will present a very brief overview of the most important regulations and standards relating to corporate environmental management. These include EU regulations on the Eco-management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and eco-labels as well as British Standard (BS) 7750 of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and the International Standard ISO 14001 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) . For a large number of companies, eco-control has become the most important and comprehensive environmental management system in the past few years. Because of a range of regulations, and most of all because of the introduc tion of new standards for corporate environmental management, ecological accounting has become a core element of environmental management systems (see e .g . Orwat 1996; Schaltegger 1994a) . This chapter will therefore conclude by examining the role of eco efficiency information management as part of a management eco-control process.
