Environmental Management

About the Book

Environmental Management is designed as a textbook for all postgraduate management students. The book will be useful for students specializing in environmental management, business and sustainability, and energy management. It will also help professionals with the knowledge to take environmentally responsible business decisions.

The book attempts to create awareness about our fragile ecology and ecosystem as well as our rich biodiversity, and raises relevant environmental issues such as pollution, deforestation, global warming, and depletion of scarce natural resources. The book also entreats the reader to respect nature and re-explore the spiritual connection that humans share with nature. It urges the stakeholders of business to take responsibility for sustaining their business by employing decision-making tools related to environmental management, following effective waste management practices, understanding global and Indian environmental standards and laws, and the necessity to go beyond compliance. The book also urges us to respect Mother Earth, and the ethical practices that we need to follow. A chapter that links economics and sustainability, attempts to throw light on the costs incurred due to the causation of environmental damage, its mitigation and control, and management. A careful selection of case studies, both Indian as well as global, showcases the attempts of individuals and organizations to act in the best interests of our environment.