Moving Ahead with ISO 14000 Improving Environmental Management and Advancing Sustainable Development

About this book

This guidebook, made up of articles from Total Quality Environmental Management and original contributions, provides an expert analysis on the integration and application of ISO 14000 into an organisation's EMS.

Contents

Partial table of contents:; A NEW GLOBAL CHALLENGE--VOLUNTARY MANAGEMENT STANDARDS.; ISO 14000: The Worldwide Response from Industry and Governments (P. Bridgen).; GAINING SUPPORT THROUGHOUT YOUR COMPANY--IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE.; Standardizing Environmental Management beyond ASTM (H. Apsan).; REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES.; Preparing for ISO 14000 (T. Ambrose).; IMPLEMENATION AND INTEGRATION ISSUES, IMPACTS, AND TOOLS.; The Potential Effect of ISO 14000 on Environmental Audits (L. Cahill & D. Schomer).; ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CREATING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.; Design for Environment: A New Framework for Strategic Decisions (M. Lenox & J. Ehrenfeld).; Index.

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Biography

About the editors PHILIP A. MARCUS, Vice President of ICF Kaiser International, is a U.S. Delegate to ISO 14000 Technical Committee 207 and serves on the environmental management systems subcommittee. He is a member of the U.S. panel that interprets the ISO 14001 EMS specifications and the 14004 EMS guidance standards. JOHN T. WILLIG is the editor of Environmental Quality Management journal. He has edited a number of previous books on environmental management, including Auditing for Environmental Quality Leadership, also available in the Wiley Series in Environmental Quality Management.