Environmental Management for Sustainable Development /

Abstract

This book explores the nature, scope and role of environmental management, with a strong focus on sustainable development. It offers a foundation for a series of texts which deal with the application of environmental management, including --Environmental Risk Management Managing Environmental Pollution Coastal and Estuarine Management Countryside Management Environmental Assessment in Practice. Environmental management is a broad and rapidly evolving discipline. This book explores the subject’s core themes and principles, which include: ● a goal of sustainable development; ● a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary or holistic approach; ● support for the ‘polluter-pays principle’; ● concern for limits, hazards and potential; ● an attempt to act beyond the local or project level; ● support for long-term not just short-term planning; ● adherence to the ‘precautionary principle’; ● translation of theory to effective practice; ● the integration of environmental science, planning and management, policy making and public involvement; ● an awareness of the need to change the ethics of peoples, businesses and governments