Environmental Management

Abstract

Strong and developing awareness of environmental issues has, for some considerable time, put increasing pressure on commercial and, in particular, manufacturing and industrial organisations to improve their environmental standards. More generally, organisations of many kinds are more conscious of the need to mitigate any adverse effects of their business. Their perception is twofold, first in the expectation of increasingly stringent governmental legislation at both national and international levels, second in response to increasing intolerance and concern demonstrated by the general public for environmentally unsound business practice. No longer can any organisation be in ignorance of, or simply choose to ignore, environmental, or what are often termed ‘green’, issues.