Measuring and managing environmental costs module in the Ansari modular series addresses issues in strategic cost management and management accounting. Suitable for use in cost or managerial... More > accounting courses at the junior, MBA, or executive education level.< Less
This e-book explores a number of important environmental management issues. Readers involved with environmental management professionally as well as readers with a general interest and perhaps only a... More > basic knowledge of environmental issues will benefit from the presentation of the various issues examined. The materials and resources referred to will prove to be useful and valuable tools, both for learning, refreshing skills as well as for updating yourself on environmental topics. Some of these topics you may at first not consider as being “environmental”. A key line of thought running through this self-study e-book is that environmental management is essentially the art of understanding and effectively dealing with linkages.< Less
This e-book explores a number of important environmental management issues. Readers involved with environmental management professionally as well as readers with a general interest and perhaps only a... More > basic knowledge of environmental issues will benefit from the presentation of the various issues examined. The materials and resources referred to will prove to be useful and valuable tools, both for learning, refreshing skills as well as for updating yourself on environmental topics. Some of these topics you may at first not consider as being “environmental”. A key line of thought running through this self-study e-book is that environmental management is essentially the art of understanding and effectively dealing with linkages.< Less
Traditionally, supply chain management is defined as design, planning, and control
of flow of goods among a number of independent entities from sourcing base to the
final consumers. For the last 20... More > years, environmental issues of supply chain
management have gained a growing concern among academia and practitioners.
First, this was because governments imposed new regulations for environment
protection in a number of countries around the world and then researchers have
included these new constraints and objective functions in their models to represent
better the new reality. The second reason is because companies have faced the
need to seek for new ways of costs reduction and appropriate products returns
management. The effort to improve supply chains using environmental friendly
management approaches results in manufacturing performance improvements by
developing new ways to manage product quality, quantity, and production system
flexibility by collaborating with suppliers, dealers, and consumers.< Less
Practice of management:
a.To introduce and use the language and concepts of environmental auditing.
b.To demonstrate environmental auditing as a new management tool for the profitability, growth and... More > survival of the business.
c.To assess the influence of the External Environmental Audit on the business enterprise in terms of: marketing, production, purchasing, R&D, finance, organisation and strategic planning.
d.To relate business objectives to current environmental issues at local, national and international level.
e. To plan the stages for gently introducing EA into an organization efficiently and effectively.
f. To motivate further study in the future.< Less
Practice of management:
a.To introduce and use the language and concepts of environmental auditing.
b.To demonstrate environmental auditing as a new management tool for the profitability, growth and... More > survival of the business.
c.To assess the influence of the External Environmental Audit on the business enterprise in terms of: marketing, production, purchasing, R&D, finance, organisation and strategic planning.
d.To relate business objectives to current environmental issues at local, national and international level.
e. To plan the stages for gently introducing EA into an organization efficiently and effectively.
f. To motivate further study in the future.< Less
Another finding – of greatest relevance to the search for a cause of rainy summers – is that the warmth of the ocean also tends to make northern and central Europe abuse than usual. By... More > contrast southern Europe, from Portugal to Turkey, makes victim of far less rain than normal.
Northern Europe picks on the Atlantic Ocean because of its wet summer according to a new study. http://blog.crowncapitalmngt.com/flooded-summer-season-atlantic-ocean-blames/< Less
Advances in the use of computing for the management of ecological and environmental data are presented in the proceedings of the 2008 conference on Environmental Information Management which was held... More > in Albuquerque, NM.< Less
