Environmental Management

Concepts and Practical Skills
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-11206-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 766 g

This contemporary textbook and manual for aspiring or new environmental managers provides the theory and practical examples needed to understand current environmental issues and trends. Each chapter explains the specific skills and concepts needed for today's successful environmental manager, and provides skill development exercises that allow students to relate theory to practice in the profession. Readers will obtain an understanding not only of the field, but also of how professional accountability, evolving science, social equity, and politics affect their work. This foundational textbook provides the scaffolds to allow students to understand the environmental regulatory infrastructure, and how to create partnerships to solve environmental problems ethically and implement successful environmental programs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lame, Marc

Marcantonio, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures; Real-world examples, author's notes, and interviews from the field; Preface; 1. Introduction to environmental management; 2. Roles of the environmental manager in a tri-sectoral world; 3. Issues and legal trends that impact your environmental management; 4. Environmental regulation; 5. Navigating the environmental regulatory infrastructure; 6. Ethical environmental management and communication; 7. It begins with a plan. Strategic planning and diffusion of innovations; 8. Managing for compliance & performance. 'Driving between the ditches'; 9. Managing the experts; 10. Managing others to do your job. Contracting; 11. Understanding and influencing policy for better environmental management; 12. Looking forward; Case study. The case of implementing a pollution prevention program to reduce the risks of pests and pesticides in children; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lame, Marc
Marc L. Lame is Professor Emeritus in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He is an entomologist and has taught courses on Environmental Management; Risk, Trust, Credibility, and Public Participation; Natural Resource Management and Policy; and Applied Ecology. He maintains a clinical practice diffusing environmental innovations. Marc is on the advisory committee to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and helped to develop the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) education program offered by the National Environmental Health Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Marcantonio, Richard
Richard A. Marcantonio is a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Mendoza College of Business, and a fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. A scholar-practitioner of environmental management and peacebuilding, he has conducted environmental and social science research on five continents and with varied communities, partnering with governmental, private, and nongovernmental organizations to pursue positive human and environmental outcomes. He is author of Environmental Violence: In the Earth System and the Human Niche (Cambridge University Press, 2022).