Marc Lame

Environmental Management (eBook, PDF)

Concepts and Practical Skills

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This contemporary textbook and manual for aspiring or new environmental managers provides the theory and practical examples needed to understand current environmental issues and trends. Each chapter explains the specific skills and concepts needed for today's successful environmental manager, and provides skill development exercises that allow students to relate theory to practice in the profession. Readers will obtain an understanding not only of the field, but also of how professional accountability, evolving science, social equity, and politics affect their work. This foundational textbook provides the scaffolds to allow students to understand the environmental regulatory infrastructure, and how to create partnerships to solve environmental problems ethically and implement successful environmental programs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009118347
• Artikelnr.: 66177086

Autorenporträt

Marc L. Lame is Professor Emeritus in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He is an entomologist and has taught courses on Environmental Management; Risk, Trust, Credibility, and Public Participation; Natural Resource Management and Policy; and Applied Ecology. He maintains a clinical practice diffusing environmental innovations. Marc is on the advisory committee to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and helped to develop the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) education program offered by the National Environmental Health Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Real-world examples, author's notes, and interviews from the field
Preface
1. Introduction to environmental management
2. Roles of the environmental manager in a tri-sectoral world
3. Issues and legal trends that impact your environmental management
4. Environmental regulation
5. Navigating the environmental regulatory infrastructure
6. Ethical environmental management and communication
7. It begins with a plan. Strategic planning and diffusion of innovations
8. Managing for compliance & performance. 'Driving between the ditches'
9. Managing the experts
10. Managing others to do your job. Contracting
11. Understanding and influencing policy for better environmental management
12. Looking forward
Case study. The case of implementing a pollution prevention program to reduce the risks of pests and pesticides in children
References
Index.