An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management: Sarkar/An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management

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 Provides an up-to-date survey of the field from the perspective of different disciplines Covers the topic of environmental management from multiple perspectives, namely, natural sciences, engineering, business, social sciences, and methods and tools perspectives Combines both academic rigor and practical approach through literature reviews and theories and examples and case studies from diverse geographic areas and policy domains Explores local and global issues of environmental management and analyzes the role of various contributors in the environmental management process Chapter contents are appropriately demonstrated with numerous pictures, charts, graphs, and tables, and accompanied by a detailed reference list for further readings Content: Geology in environmental management / M. Kruge -- Biology in environmental management / A. Mayer -- Soil science in environmental management / N. Kabengi and M. Chrysochoou -- Green chemistry and environmental management / S.R. Asolekar, R. Gopichandran, A.M. Hiremath and D. Kumar -- Green energy and climate change / R. Gopichandran, S.R. Asolekar, Omkar Jani, D. Kumar and A. M. Hiremath -- Engineering in environmental management / Y. Deng -- Green architecture in environmental management / A. Ferdinand and J. Kliwinski -- Business strategies for environmental sustainability / A. Mukherjee, N. Onel, and R. Nunez -- Green marketing strategies / M. Polonsky, M. Taghian, and C. D'Souza -- Understanding the evidence on portfolio exposure to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments / S.A. Meziani -- The role of public relations and organizational communication in environmental management / R.W. Jensen -- The economics of environmental management / David Timmons -- Law and policy in environmental management / D. Rahm -- Environmental ethics / T. Visak -- Participatory approaches in environmental management / S. Danielson -- Statistics in environmental management research / J. Brown -- Remote sensing in environmental management / M. Chopping -- Geographic information systems in environmental management / D. Yu and S.W. Buchanan -- Life cycle analysis as a management tool in environmental systems / D. Georgakellos -- Environmental audit in environmental management / I.T. Nicolson -- Risk assessment as a tool in environmental management / K. Asante-Duah -- Appendix I: Supplemental readings (all chapters) -- Appendix II: Model syllabus (all chapters) -- Appendix III: Model environmental management curricula (PhD, MS, BS). 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.