Environmental Management

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN EUROPEAN COMPANIES
Succes Stories and Evaluation

Edited by Jobst Conrad, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

Over the past decade, the greening of industry has become both an issue in scientific and political debate and a generic substantive development in industry itself. This study is the product of an international collaborative research project investigating exemplary cases of successful environmental management in European companies in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, and Latvia with the aim of discovering the reasons and dynamics underlying them and the role environmental policy did and could play. Providing the background and context of the research project, the nine case studies concern various companies of different sizes and from different industrial branches and describe the social processes leading to substantive environmental achievements and corresponding environmental management systems.

This study also evaluates the success stories in a comparative empirical, as well as theoretical, perspective with an environmental policy orientation. Case studies examine the role of a company's internal and external determinants, explaining successful corporate environmental management on the micro-level.

Contents: Evolution of Environmental Policy and Environmental Management • Project Design, Procedures and Development • The Environmental Factor in the Designing of Passenger Cars by NedCar • Determinants and Dynamics of Successful Environmental Management • Perspectives for Environmental Management • Significance of, and Implication and Recommendations for, Environmental Policy

Readership: Environmental managers, business managers, environmental consultancies, economists, and corporate and industrial libraries.

Cloth ISBN: 90-5699-085-3 US$105 / £69 / ECU88
Contents
I Background and Context
1 Conceptual Introduction
Jobst Conrad
2 Evolution of Environmental Policy and Environmental Management
Jobst Conrad
3 Project Design, Procedures and Development
Jobst Conrad
II Success Stories
4 Amecke Fruchtsaft: Economical Pathway into an Ecological Optimum of Returnable-Bottle Systems
Jobst Conrad
5 Diessner Farben und Lacke GmbH und Co. KG: Recycling Paint Sludge and Reducing Pollution
Malti Taneja
6 ABC-Coating: Developing and Diffusing Water-Borne Coating Systems
Jesper Holm and Inger Stauning
7 Glasuld: Resource Management and Eco-Auditing in Glass-Wool Production
Jesper Holm and Boerge Klemmensen
8 Eco-Balance Sheet and Implementation of Eco-Controlling in the KUNERT Group
Uta Kirschten
9 Hertie and The BUND: The History of an Uncommon Cooperation
Simone Will
10 The Environmental Factor in the Designing of Passenger Cars by NedCar
Geerten J.I. Schrama
11 The Internalisation of Environmental Management at GE Plastics Europe
Geerten J.I. Schrama
12 Environmental Management at the Ciba Corporation
Joseph Huber, Ellen Protzmann and Ulrike C. Siegert
III Comparative Evaluation
13 Typical and Varying Actors and Structures
Jobst Conrad
14 Comparison with Other Case Studies of Environmental Managment
Jobst Conrad
15 Determinants and Dynamics of Successful Environmental Management
Jobst Conrad
16 Perspectives for Environmental Managment
Jobst Conrad
17 Any Generizable Pattern of Successful Environmental Management?
Jobst Conrad
18 Significance of, and Implications and Recommendations for Environmental Policy
Jobst Conrad