ISO 14001 and Beyond : Environmental Management Systems in the Real World.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: ISO 14001 and Beyond: EMS in the Real World -- Part 1 Laying Down the Law: How Self-Regulation Came of Age -- 1. Beyond 14001: An Introduction to the ISO 14000 Series -- 2. Neither International nor Standard: The Limits of ISO 14001 as an Instrument of Global Corporate Environmental Management -- 3. The ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems Standard: One American's View -- 4. Squaring the Circle: Fundamental Barriers to Effective Environmental Product Labelling -- 5. Trade, Competitiveness and the Environment -- 6. Environmental Management Standards and Certification: Do They Add Value? -- Part 2 Coping Strategies: Important Trends -- 7. Environmental Management Systems: Challenges for Russian Manufacturing Industry -- 8. Attitudes and Experiences of the Japanese Business Community vis-à-vis EMS Standards -- 9. Environmental Management Systems: ISO 14001 Issues for Developing Countries -- 10. Training and Environmental Management Systems -- 11. Environmental Management Standards: Who Cares? -- 12. Targeting Sustainability: The Positive Application of ISO 14001 -- 13. From EMAS to SMAS: Charting the Course from Environmental Management to Sustainability -- Part 3 Tactical Responses: Managers at the Greenface -- 14. Beyond ISO 14001: Ontario Hydro's Environmental Management System -- 15. EMAS Implementation at Hipp in Germany -- 16. Training: Preparations for Maintaining Effective Environmental Management Systems -- 17. Eco-Management and Audit Scheme for UK Local Authorities: Three Years On -- 18. Environmental Management Standards: What do SMEs Think? -- 19. Towards Innovative, More Eco-Efficient Product Design Strategies -- 20. Establishing Workable Environmental Objectives -- 21. Environment Risk: Assessment, Management and Prevention of Loss.

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A discussion of the environmental management systems standard ISO 14001. Leading practitioners and thinkers in the field address what the standard means in the real world, what changes managers have to make to accommodate its principles, and what decisions need to be faced and when.

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