concept of environmental management pdf

Environmental management is a young scientific discipline created in the field of ecology at the end of the last century with the task of reducing to the minimum dimensions the impact of technical and technological development on the biosphere and the survival of living beings (Živković 2016)

It defines environmental management as “an interactive process wherein we learn how social insti-tutions can best reconcile humankind’s needs and aspirations with the limits that the natural world imposes” (O’Leary et al 1999) It outlines and explains the three criteria for environ-mental managers to be successful:

Chapter 1 Introduction to environmental management What is environmental management? What do we mean by the words ‘environment’ and ‘environmental management’? The word ‘environment’ is used in different ways We talk of the ‘home environment’ the ‘work environment’ the ‘social environment’

WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT? Environmental management (EM) is a subject that combines science policy and socioeconomic applications It primarily stresses on finding solution to practical problems that people face in cohabitation with nature resource exploitation and waste production

This book discusses some of the methods that can be used to reduce and prevent environmental problems In particular it explores aspects of environmental impact assessment land use planning pollution and climate change environmental education environmental law and policy environmental engineering and environmental design