This workbook provides an overview of the nature of environmental risk and how this impacts on the corporate world. Understand the implications for the wider national and global environments.
- Middle and Senior Managers
- Post Grad and/or Post experience Managers
Anybody wanting to develop skills and knowledge in a particular management field at postgraduate or post experience level.
What is Risk? What risk is!, The risk management environment, The management of risk, Types of risk
Risk and strategy , Risk management and culture
Economic & Social Influences on the Environment
The Industrial Revolution, Migration, Division of labour
Trade flows, Consumption, Population growth
Gross national product and consumption, Free trade helps poverty!, Trade and the environment, Transport and the environment, Is environmental protection bad for the economy? Government & NGO Environmental Initiatives, Why government and NGO intervention is needed, An environmental report, Integration of effort, Global warming, Greenhouse gases, Acid rain, Clean air acts, The nuclear debate, The ozone layer, Agenda 21 & ISO 14000, The origins of Agenda 21, What Agenda 21 contains, Major groups, ISO 14000 and why international standardisation is needed, The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), Principles of ISO 14000
Components of ISO 14000 ISO and the law, An environmental management system, Implementing ISO 14000, Sustainable Development, Sustainable development definition, Trade and sustainable development, The key to the trade and environment debate, Environmental trade measures, Sustainability of conventional energy
Links to Agenda, The UK sustainable development strategy, Key economic indicators, New, different or better ways, Sustainable corporate responsibilities, Product life cycle, Waste disposal/recycling, Emissions trading, Environmental assessment, Environmental risk assessment and management, Strategic environmental assessment, Eco-management and audit scheme, Corporate Environmental Policies & Practices, The impact of legislation, Corporate governance, Move from command and control, Design for the environment, Eco-labelling, Social responsibility and performance
Corporate performance
(Publisher: Select Knowledge)
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