Concepts of Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

This text is a pioneering work on environmental management for sustainable development. This up-to-date and comprehensive textbook integrates the concepts of environmental science with environmental management. It presents different management tools for achieving sustainable development. The text is suitable for environmental science and management, MBA and BBA students both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Broadly is covers:

• Concepts in ecology and environmental sciences.
• Concepts of sustainable development including indicators, priorities and practices.
• Concepts of environmental management including corporate environmental indicators, legal, technological and managerial tools.
• Detailed treatment of environmental laws, EIA and EMP, life cycle analysis, pollution control technology, EMS certification, environmental auditing, accounting, industrial safety practices, disaster management, and corporate social responsibility.
• Waste treatment, municipal, hazardous, biomedical wastes, secured landfill, Hazchem code, risk assessment analysis.
• Case studies.
• Energy management and climate change.

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