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1.1. What is environmental management? -- 1.2. The systems approach -- 1.3. What is sustainability? -- 1.3.1. Intergenerational trade-offs -- 1.3.2. Exhaustible resources? -- 1.3.3. Ecological footprint -- 1.3.4. Macro measure: Adjusted net savings -- 1.3.5. Micro measure: Entropy -- 1.4. Which companies should care the most? -- 1.5. Corporate social responsibility -- 1.5.1. Characteristics of CSR -- 1.5.2. Do stakeholders recognize CSR? -- 1.5.3. The economics of CSR -- 1.5.4. CSR strategy -- 1.6. Summary -- 1.7. Study questions and exercises -- 2.1. Energy -- 2.2. Fresh water -- 2.3. Air pollution -- 2.4. Waste management -- 2.5. Transportation -- 2.6. Noise -- 2.7. Climate change -- 2.8. Summary -- 2.9. Study questions and exercises -- 3.1. Basic economic concept -- 3.1.1. Pollutants and externalities -- 3.1.2. Public goods and property rights -- 3.1.3. Efficiency and fairness -- 3.2. Policy instruments -- 3.2.1. Instrument choice criteria. |
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3.2.2. Technology and emission standards -- 3.2.3. Environmental taxes -- 3.2.4. Tradeable emission permits -- 3.2.5. Hybrid regimes -- 3.2.6. Subsidies -- 3.2.7. Second-best approaches -- 3.2.8. Static and dynamic efficiency -- 3.2.9. Dealing with uncertainty -- 3.3. Environmental markets in action -- 3.4. Valuing the environment -- 3.4.1. Revealed-preference approaches -- 3.4.2. Stated-preference approaches -- 3.5. Cost-benefit analysis -- 3.6. International trade repercussions -- 3.7. Summary -- 3.8. Study questions -- 4.1. Concepts -- 4.2. Goal definition and scoping -- 4.3. Inventory analysis -- 4.4. Impact analysis -- 4.5. Improvement analysis -- 4.6. Environmental input-output analysis -- 4.7. Summary -- 4.8. Study questions and exercises -- 5.1. Pollution as a legal concept -- 5.2. Environmental law in Canada -- 5.2.1. Federal jurisdiction -- 5.2.2. Provincial jurisdiction -- 5.2.3. Municipal jurisdiction -- 5.2.4. Interjurisdictional cooperation -- 5.2.5. Aboriginal rights. |
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5.3. Environmental law in the United States -- 5.3.1. The Clean Air Act -- 5.3.2. The Clean Water Act -- 5.3.3. Hazardous pollutants and the superfund -- 5.4. Civil liability for environmental harm -- 5.5. Corporate and personal duties -- 5.5.1. The Canadian legal context -- 5.5.2. The US legal context -- 5.6. Damage, compensation, and remediation -- 5.7. International environmental treaties -- 5.7.1. International law -- 5.7.2. The GATT, the WTO, and NAFTA -- 5.7.3. Environmental border adjustments -- 5.8. Summary -- 5.9. Study questions and exercises -- 6.1. Objectives and process overview -- 6.1.1. The EIA process in the United States -- 6.1.2. The EIA process in Canada -- 6.2. Screening -- 6.3. Scoping -- 6.4. Impact prediction -- 6.4.1. Fixed-point scoring -- 6.4.2. The analytic hierarchy process -- 6.5. Impact management -- 6.5.1. Avoidance and mitigation -- 6.5.2. Remediation techniques -- 6.6. Summary -- 6.7. Study questions and exercises -- 7.1. EMS components. |
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7.2. Code of conduct -- 7.3. Environmental management plan -- 7.3.1. Pollution prevention (P2) plan -- 7.3.2. Environmental emergency (E2) plan -- 7.4. Environmental audit -- 7.5. ISO 14000 -- 7.5.1. The certification process -- 7.5.2. The adoption decision -- 7.5.3. Effectiveness -- 7.6. Summary -- 7.7. Study questions -- 8.1. Strategy space -- 8.2. Green innovation and technology -- 8.2.1. Process innovation -- 8.2.2. Product innovation and differentiation -- 8.2.3. Servicizing -- 8.3. Green sourcing -- 8.4. Green marketing -- 8.4.1. Green branding -- 8.4.2. Eco-labelling -- 8.4.3. The greenwashing trap -- 8.4.4. Green price premium -- 8.4.5. The credibility gap -- 8.5. Stakeholders and the role of ENGOs -- 8.6. Overcoming nimbyism -- 8.7. Managing adversity -- 8.7.1. Environmental risk management -- 8.7.2. Crisis management -- 8.8. Summary -- 8.9. Study questions and exercises -- 9.1. Air pollution -- 9.1.1. Dispersion -- 9.1.2. Control strategies. |
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9.1.3. Abit6thent devices: Particulates -- 9.1.4. Abatement devices: Gases -- 9.1.5. Specific pollutants -- 9.2. Water pollution -- 9.2.1. Types and sources -- 9.2.2. Wastewater treatment -- 9.3. Solid waste management -- 9.3.1. Solid waste streams -- 9.3.2. Landfills -- 9.3.3. Incineration -- 9.3.4. Hazardous waste -- 9.4. Summary -- 9.5. Study questions and exercises -- 10.1. Energy supply, energy demand, and Hubbert's peak -- 10.2. Coal, oil and gas -- 10.3. Nuclear power -- 10.4. Levellized energy cost -- 10.5. Renewable energy -- 10.6. Smart power grids and super grids -- 10.7. Energy conservation and energy efficiency -- 10.7.1. Technology -- 10.7.2. Conservation measures -- 10.8. Summary -- 10.9.study questions and exercises -- 11.1. Mining -- 11.1.1. Economics of exhaustible resources -- 11.1.2. Backstop technologies -- 11.1.3. Recycling -- 11.1.4. Environmental challenges -- 11.2. Forestry -- 11.2.1. Optimal forest rotation -- 11.2.2. Management practices. |
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11.2.3. Pulp and paper mills -- 11.3. Fisheries -- 11.3.1. Fisheries economics -- 11.3.2. Fisheries management and public policy -- 11.4. Summary -- 11.5. Study questions and exercises -- 12.1. The time horizon -- 12.2. Population growth -- 12.3. Survival challenges -- 12.4. Long-term power sources -- 12.5. Long-term mineral resources -- 12.6. The sustainability agenda -- 12.7. Study questions. |
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9781442616783 (electronic bk.) |
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1442616784 (electronic bk.) |
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9781442648357 |
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144264835X |
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9781442626133 |
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1442626135 |
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