Environmental Management: Concepts and Practical Skills - Hardcover

Lame, Marc; Marcantonio, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009100246 ISBN 13: 9781009100243

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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.

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009100246
• ISBN 13: 9781009100243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346