Summary: Environmental Management And Industry

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  • 1 Lecture 1: Intro

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  • What are the three categories of industrial impacts on the environment

    1. Pollution
    2. Depletion of resources
    3. Use of space
  • What are examples of environmental regulations of industry?

    1. Emission standards or reduction targets for pollution 
    2. Prescriptions for prevention of contamination
    3. Requirements for safety, packaging and product information
  • Key Concepts of Environmental Management

    1. Environmental Care
      • Environmental protection and control
    2. Environmental Management
      • All management efforts
    3. Environmental Management System (EMS)
      • Organizational and administrative framework to realize environmental measures in a consistent, complete and continuous way
  • What were the motivations and initiatives according to Bansal & Roth (2000)

    • Competitiveness
      • Process intensification
      • Green marketing
      • Green products
    • Legitimation
      • Regulatory compliance
      • Networking with environmental interest groups
      • Impression management
    • Environmental Responsibility
      • Donations to environmental causes
      • Unpublicized initiatives
      • Life cycle analysis
  • Why do companies engage in environmental management?

    - Range of motivations
    - Governmental regulation often the dominant driver
    - Context matters
  • What is the 4-stage model?

    Aspects that you can analyse which will help identify a corporate sustainability strategy.

    Aspects: ambition, knowledge and information, technology, organization, budget, environmental risks and opportunities

    Strategies: crisis oriented, process-oriented, chain-oriented, full sustainaibility oriented
  • What are the 4 stages of environmental strategy?

    • Crisis-oriented
      • Control of most urgent issues
    • Process oriented
      • Address problems systematically
    • Chain oriented
      • Whole product chain rather than limited to the scale of the firm
    • Full Environmental Strategy
      • Green company and clear communication to stakeholders
  • 2 Lecture 2: Pollution Prevention

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  • What does waste and emission prevention help a company to do?

    1. Reduce environmental impacts and risks
    2. Reduce costs
    3. Benefit public and workforce health and safety
    4. Improve compliance to current and future regulations
  • What is waste and emission prevention

    Avoidance or minimization of the creation of waste exports and emissions by reduction at source.

    Can be done through:
    - On-site recycling
    - Reduction of level of harmfulness
  • What is the pollution prevention hierarchy

    1. Changes in products
    2. Changes in process inputs
    3. Changes in process technology
    4. Changes in process operation
    5. On-site reuse
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