Integrated Environmental Management Handbook - Softcover

O'Callaghan, Paul W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471963429 ISBN 13: 9780471963424

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

This handbook is intended as a practical guide for environmental managers in industry and commerce to save resources such as energy, water and materials whilst also minimizing waste, saving money and protecting the environment. The principles and procedures used are those of Integrated Environmental Management (IEM), which takes account of BS7750 and EMAS, and compliance with European and UK legislation. IEM is an optimised decision sequence for retrofit conservation options, whereby a list of management decisions, in order of cost-effectiveness, is formulated. This list leads to an optimal project plan, in which each sequential decision leads to the best action currently available in economic terms. This approach enables environmental managers to adopt a ?no risk? investment policy, in which no further action is taken until financial savings arising from previous decisions have been realised. The plan effectively reinvests ?savings? so that no net capital outlay is required to reduce commodity costs. Thus the systematic application of IEM allows all necessary retrofits and modifications to technical activities to be financially resourced from within the environmental management project itself.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Integrated environmental management (IEM) is concerned with the local and global pollution of air, water, and land. This book looks at the ways by which managers and decision makers can achieve optimum integrated pollution control (IPC) through a series of sequential, cost-effective decisions. The step-by-step approach allows those concerned with environmental issues to assess financial benefit from the policies implemented, before progressing an on-going environmental programme, so that new measures implemented can be financed from within the programme.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471963429
• ISBN 13: 9780471963424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386