Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

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; and, 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.

ISBN 041536535X   Pages 464 ISBN13 9780415365352 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 903 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Routledge Introductions to Environment Publication date 10 Aug 2006   Height (mm) 246 Library of Congress 2005037580   Width (mm) 174 DEWEY 363.705   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

Ch. 1		Introduction		3
Ch. 2		Environmental management fundamentals and goals		20
Ch. 3		Environmental management and science		39
Ch. 4		Environmentalism, social sciences, economics and environmental management		77
Ch. 5		Environmental management, business and law		111
Ch. 6		Participants in environmental management		143
Ch. 7		Environmental management approaches		163
Ch. 8		Standards, monitoring, modelling, auditing and co-ordination		176
Ch. 9		Proactive assessment, prediction and forecasting		204
Ch. 10		Key resources		235
Ch. 11		Global challenges		269
Ch. 12		Pollution and waste management		289
Ch. 13		Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations		312
Ch. 14		Tourism and environmental management		333
Ch. 15		Urban environmental management		345
Ch. 16		The way ahead		363

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