Environmental management in European companies : success stories and evaluation / / edited by Jobst Conrad

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910279587603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, : Gordon abd Breach Science Publishers, c1998
• ISBN: 9786610071739; 9781040190791; 1040190790; 9780429078163; 0429078161; 9781482287363; 1482287366; 9781280071737; 1280071737; 9780203305454; 0203305450
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Collana: Environmental problems and social dynamics ; ; v. 2
• Altri autori (Persone): ConradJobst
• Disciplina: 658.408
• Soggetti: Industrial management - Environmental aspects - Europe; Environmental management - Europe; Environmental policy - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE; SUMMARY; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; Background and Context; Conceptual Introduction; Evolution of Environmental Policy and Environmental Management; Project Design, Procedures and Development; Success Stories; Amecke Fruchtsaft: Economical Pathway into an Ecological Optimum of Returnable-Bottle Systems; Diessner Farben und Lacke GmbH und Co. KG: Recycling Paint Sludge and Reducing Pollutants; ABC-Coating: Developing and Diffusing Water-Borne Coating Systems; Glasuld: Resource Management and Eco-Auditing in Glass-Wool Production; Eco-Balance Sheet and Implementation of Eco-Controlling in the KUNERT GroupHertie and The BUND: The History of an Uncommon Cooperation; The Environmental Factor in the Designing of Passenger Cars by NedCar; The Internalisation of Environmental Management at GE Plastics Europe; Environmental Management at the Ciba Corporation; Comparative Evaluation; Typical and Varying Actors and Structures; Comparison with Other Case Studies of Environmental Management; Determinants and Dynamics of Successful Environmental Management; Perspectives for Environmental Management; Any Generalizable Pattern of Successful Environmental Management?Significance of, and Implications and Recommendations for Environmental Policy; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the past decade, the greening of industry has become both an issue in scientific and political debate and a generic substantive development in industry itself. This study is the product of an international collaborative research project investigating exemplary cases of successful environmental management in European companies in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, and Latvia with the aim of discovering the reasons and dynamics underlying them and the role environmental policy did and could play. Providing the background and context of the research project, the nine cas