Environmental Management: Principles and practice

Recommended reading
Journals which publish articles on the fundamentals of environmental
management
Environmental Management
Ethics, Place and Environment
Journal of Environmental Management

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C h a p t e r 3
Environmental
management—
business and law
♦ Environmental management and business
30
♦ Corporate environmental management in the
1990s
32
♦ Corporate visions of stewardship—a paradigm
shift to environmental management ethics?
33
♦ Approaches adopted to promote
environmental management in business
34
♦ Environmental management and business:
the current situation
41
♦ Environmental management and law
41
♦ The 1969 US National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) —‘environmental Magna Carta’?
45
♦ European Law and environmental management
46
♦ International law and environmental
management
48
♦ Indigenous peoples and environmental law
49
♦ The 1992 UN Conference on Environment and
Development
50
♦ International law and sovereignty issues
50
♦ Alternative dispute resolution
55
♦ Recommended reading and resources
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‘Our products reflect our philosophy…respect for other cultures, the past, the
natural world, and our customers. It’s a partnership of profits with principles’.
(Anita Roddick—The Body Shop promotional literature 1990)
Business and legal aspects of environmental management have developed
greatly and generated huge interest in recent decades. This chapter presents an
overview.
In many respects business and legal aspects are the cutting-edge of
environmental management. Business drives a lot of human activity, and can degrade
people and the environment, or offer routes to new development ethics and sustainable
development. Law provides guidelines and rules for arbitration, without which chaos
and destruction ensue. Both these aspects of environmental management must evolve
rapidly to face challenges like globalization and transboundary problems adequately.