Environmental management and organisations
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Contents

  • (Untitled section)
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Defining environment
    • 1.1 ‘The environment’
    • 1.2 Natural or human?
    • 1.3 Whose environment?
  • 2 Defining management
  • 3 Defining environmental management
  • 4 Defining systems
    • 4.1 What are systems?
    • 4.2 System elements
    • 4.3 Perspective
    • 4.4 Systems diagrams
  • 5 Systems and environmental management
  • 6 Environmental milestones
  • 7 DDT
  • 8 Introducing organisations
    • 8.1 Reflecting on ‘organisation’
    • 8.2 Defining ‘organisation’
    • 8.3 Purpose
    • 8.4 Structure
      • 8.4.1 Hierarchies
      • 8.4.2 Alternative structures
    • 8.5 Processes
  • 9 Organisation as a system
    • 9.1 The UN as a system
    • 9.2 Purpose and boundary
  • 10 Beyond the organisation
    • 10.1 System environment
    • 10.2 Organisation networks
  • 11 Reflecting on organisations and environment
    • 11.1 Inputs and outputs
      • 11.1.1 Water use
      • 11.1.2 Waste production
    • 11.2 Solving impacts?
    • 11.3 Problem solved or situation managed?
  • 12 Framing in environmental management
    • 12.1 Health and safety
    • 12.2 Public health
    • 12.3 Environmental protection
  • 13 Environmental disasters
  • 14 Risk management
    • 14.1 Identifying risk
    • 14.2 Organisations and risk
  • 15 Voluntary and compulsory approaches
    • 15.1 Voluntary approaches
      • 15.1.1 Corporate sustainability reporting
      • 15.1.2 Drivers
    • 15.2 Compulsory approaches
      • 15.2.1 European directives
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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