An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management: Striving for Sustainability

Part 1: Overview 1. Purpose, structure and contents of this textbook 2. Management and business companies 3. Environmental orientation 4. Sustainable development 5. Business management on its way to sustainability 6. Business management and its stakeholders Part 2: Success factors and fields of action 7. Balanced socioeconomic management of the environmental challenge 8. Markets, efficiency and eco-efficiency 9. Systems of legal regulation, environmental norms and standards 10. Partnerships and legitimacy 11. Political arenas Part 3: Strategic environmental management 12. Strategic process and strategic options 13. Basic corporate environmental strategies 14. Competitive strategies 15. Risk management strategies Part 4: Concepts and tools of corporate environmental management 16. Eco-marketing 17. Environmental accounting 18. Environmental management systems and eco-control 19. Outlook and future of corporate environmental management Appendix: Model environmental agreement Bibliography