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Books on Environmental Management

Environmental management seeks to minimize the damaging impact on the world's natural resources through the careful study and assessment of the ways in which businesses, governments and individuals alike use those resources. It seeks to find ways to create and maintain sustainable industries and lifestyles in order to protect our world for future generations, and concerns all of us and the world we live in.
  1. Basic Concepts in Environmental Management

    • This hardcover book by Kenneth M. Mackenthun has 152 pages spread over 15 chapters. It covers such environmental factors as government regulations regarding the environment and the protection of natural resources at federal, state and local levels. Government legislation for guidelines concerning the quality of water, including drinking water along with effluent guidelines, are covered. The book provides the fundamental knowledge that environmentalists need not only to work in protecting the land but also to enhance their own career prospects.

    Practical Guide to Environmental Management, 10th Edition (Environmental Law Institute)

    • Frank B. Friedman is the author of this paperback book of 613 pages published in 2006. The 10th edition contains new material on criminal sentencing guidelines, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and general social responsibility. The book examines developing trends in environmental management, particularly management systems and corporate behavior to present environmental issues in context.

    Environmental Management: Readings and Cases

    • Now in its second edition, this 680-page book by Michael V. Russo devotes two-thirds of its pages discussing such topics as green marketing and environmental strategies and regulations. It is aimed at undergraduates or graduates studying such courses as Environmental Management, Policy and Strategy and Clean Production and can be used as either a supplemental or stand-alone text. This edition features 11 new cases highlighting the world-wide qualities of environmental management.

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