Total Quality Environmental Management: An ISO 14000 Approach

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Pollution reduction attempts, without consideration of costs and benefits, are likely to destroy stock market values of corporations. Companies are faced with a plethora of alternatives to reduce pollution as pollution control moves from command-and-control to market-based regulations. This book offers insights into implementing environmental programmes in companies of any size. The reader is walked through all phases of an environmental management programme, including self-evaluation, product and process evaluation, environmental reporting, product labelling, environmental auditing, industry standards, environmental performance metrics, environmental accounting and total quality environmental management tools. ISO 14000 standards applicable to various phases of environmental management systems are described in detail. This book explains in-depth how to initiate, develop and implement environmental programmes in a total quality management framework and integrate environmental factors in critical corporate decisions. This work, written primarily for practising managers, should also be of interest to scholars and students in business management.

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VASANTHAKUMAR N. BHAT is Associate Professor of Management Science and Operations Management at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University. He is author of numerous books and articles including The Green Corporation: The Next Competitive Advantage (Quorum, 1996), and has several years experience in pharmaceutical and engineering companies.