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Covers the most recent topics in the field of environmental management and provides a broad focus on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of environmental management
The last few decades have seen a tremendous increase in the anthropogenic pressures on the environment. The result has been widespread environmental degradation, along with increasing negative social and economic impacts, especially on the vulnerable sections of the population, not only in the United States, but all around the globe. Although environmental management concepts have been around since the 1970s, it is mostly in recent years that they have become ubiquitous. Thus far, the efforts to combat environmental problems have been predominantly piecemeal and top-down; consequently both the reception of environmental policies and their effectiveness have been less than satisfactory in most cases.
An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management is intended to be the first and only scholarly book positioned as a leading text book, as well as a specialist reference resource of academic information and analysis on environmental management from multiple perspectives, highlighting cutting edge research, new concepts and theories, and fresh practical ideas and initiatives that can be readily applied in societies and organizations.
With contributions by leading experts in their fields An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management features topics on:
Principles of Geology, Biology, Soil Science, Chemistry, and Engineering as applied in environmental management research and practices
Green Energy, Climate Change, and Green Architecture
Elements of sustainable business, such as Green Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Environmental Economics
Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Law and Policy
Common methods and tools used in environmental management research and practice, including Statistics, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Life Cycle Analysis, and Environmental Auditing
Today, increasing concerns about the environment are leading legislators, regulators, communities, corporations, and consumers to make new choices in terms of scientific research priorities, engineering investments, infrastructure and regulations, purchasing patterns, product usage and disposal behavior, to name a few of many. An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management - by simultaneously adopting multiple perspectives and by striving to unify them, through a rigorous examination of the underlying interconnections - provides a much-needed integrative thrust that clarifies and crystallizes the subject of environmental management, and provides a convenient one-stop compendium consisting of theories, analytical techniques and applications drawn from natural sciences and engineering, social sciences and policy, and business and economics.
List of contents
About the Editors ix
Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Endorsements xv
Section I Environmental Management: The Natural Science and Engineering Perspective 1
1 Geology in Environmental Management 3
Michael A. Kruge
2 Biology in Environmental Management 47
Audrey L. Mayer
3 Soil Science in Environmental Management 75
Nadine Kabengi and Maria Chrysochoou
4 Green Chemistry and Ecological Engineering as A Framework for Sustainable Development 97
Shyam R. Asolekar, R. Gopichandran, Anand M. Hiremath and Dinesh Kumar
5 Green Energy and Climate Change 127
R. Gopichandran, Shyam R. Asolekar, Omkar Jani, Dinesh Kumar and Anand M. Hiremath
6 Engineering in Environmental Management 151
Yang Deng
7 Green Architecture in Environmental Management 173
Jason Kliwinski and Amy Ferdinand
Section II Environmental Management: The Business and Social Science Perspective 193
8 Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability 195
Avinandan Mukherjee, Naz Onel and Rosita Nuñez
9 Green Marketing Strategies 231
Mehdi Taghian, Michael Jay Polonsky and Clare D'Souza
10 Role of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Factors in Financial Investments 255
A. Seddik Meziani
11 The Role of Public Relations and Organizational Communication in Environmental Management 277
Ricard W. Jensen
12 The Economics of Environmental Management 289
David Timmons
13 Law and Policy in Environmental Management 305
Dianne Rahm
14 Environmental Ethics 337
Tatjana Visak
Section III Environmental Management: the Methods and Tools Perspective 363
15 Participatory Approaches in Environmental Management 365
Stentor B. Danielson
16 Statistics in Environmental Management 383
Jennifer A. Brown
17 Remote Sensing in Environmental Management 397
Mark J. Chopping
18 Geographic Information Systems in Environmental Management 423
Danlin L. Yu and Scott W. Buchanan
19 Life Cycle Analysis as a Management Tool in Environmental Systems 441
Dimitrios A. Georgakellos
20 E nvironmental Audit in Environmental Management 465
Ian T. Nicolson
21 Risk Assessment as a Tool in Environmental Management 503
Kofi Asante?]Duah
Appendix A: Supplemental Readings 521
Appendix B: Model Syllabus 549
Appendix C: Model Environmental Management Curricula (BS, MS, PhD) 579
Index 587
About the author
Dibyendu Sarkar is a Professor of Environmental Geochemistry and the Director of the Environmental Management PhD program at Montclair State University, New Jersey. He has published over 300 journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and technical abstracts including two books. Dr. Sarkar is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and the Editor-in-Chief of Current Pollution Reports.
Rupali Datta is an Associate Professor of Environmental Biology in the Department of Biological Science at Michigan Technological University. She has authored more than 100 research papers and book chapters, and more than 150 abstracts.
Avinandan Mukherjee is Professor of Marketing and Dean at the College of Business in Clayton State University, Georgia. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing. He has authored over 100 articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and edited books.
Robyn Hannigan is Professor and Dean at the School for the Environment in the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Dr. Hannigan has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles across fields of geochemistry and environmental science. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Geological Society of America and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow.
Summary
Covering the topics in the field of environmental management and providing a broad focus on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of environmental management, this book provides a survey of the field from the perspective of different disciplines.
