Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, which concerns all humans. There
is no precise and universally agreed definition of environmental management but it plays a crucial role in the
quest for sustainable development. Environmental management affects everybody from individual citizens, administrators,
and lawyers, to businesses, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations.
This second edition explores the nature and role of environmental management, covering key principles and practice,
and offers a comprehensive and understandable introduction, which points readers to further in-depth coverage.
Among the themes covered are:
sustainable development
proactive approaches
the precautionary principle
the idea that the "polluter pays," and the need for humans to be less vulnerable and more adaptable.
With rapid expansion and evolution of the subject it is easy for those starting to study itto get disorientated,
but this useful volume offers a structured coverage and foundation for further, more-focused interest. Environmental
Management for Sustainable Development is a much revised, restructured and updated second edition accessible to
all readers. It is illustrated throughout with figures, plates and case studies.
Table of Contents
PART I. THEORY, PRINCIPLES AND KEY CONCEPTS
1 Introduction
2 Environmental management fundamentals and goals
3 Environmental management and science
4 Environmentalism, social sciences and environmental management
5 Environmental management, business and law
6 Participants in environmental management
PART II. PRACTICE
7 Environmental management approaches
8 Methods and tools
9 Methods and tools
10 Key resources
11 Global challenges
12 Pollution and waste management
13 Environmental management in sensitive, vulnerable and difficult situations
14 Tourism and environmental management
15 Urban environmental management
