ISBN: 3540652965
TITLE: International Environmental Management Benchmarks
AUTHOR: Hitchens, David M.W.N.; Clausen, Jens; Fichter, Klaus (Eds.)
TOC:

A Requirements and Framework for the Sustainable Company 1
1 Steps Towards the Sustainable Company  Requirements and Strategic Starting Points 3
Klaus Fichter
2 Goals for the Sustainable Company 23
Jens Clausen, Maite Mathes
3 The Influence of Environmental Regulation on Company Competitiveness: A Review of the Literature and Some Case Study Evidence 39
David M.W.N. Hitchens
4 Environment and Competitiveness of Companies 55
Thomas Dyllick
5 From Environmental Management Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship 71
Hugi H. Kuijjer
6 Mandatory Environmental Reporting: Chance or Risk for Companies? 87
Michael Aucott
7 Environmental Performance Evaluation  The Link Between Management Systems and Reality 103
Tron Kleivane
8. Ecoefficiency in Banking  From Assessing the Risks to Expanding the Opportunities 111
Inge Schuhmacher, Gianreto Gamboni
B Best Practice Approaches in Environmental Management 125
1 New Concepts in Environmental Auditing  The Application of Auditing Techniques to Environmental Management Systems 127
Martin Houldin
2 Waste Is Good Material at the Wrong Place  Perspectives of a Recycling Economy 139
Jos A. Lutzenberger
3 Japanese Approaches to Environmental Management 147
Tomo Shibamiya
4 Reducing Environmental Harm from Products: More than Selling "Green Goods" 155
Frans Oosterhuis
5 Environmental Benefits Through Company Application of LCA 165
Gerd Ulrich Scholl, Susanne Nisius
6 Competitive Advantages Through Voluntary Environmental Reporting 173
Klaus Fichter, Thomas Loew and Jens Clausen
7 Mandatory Public Reporting  A Manufacturing Site's Perspective 187
Margret Pierce
8 Environmental Benchmarking in Italy 197
Matteo Bartolomeo, Federica Ranghieri
9 Full Cost Accounting as a Tool for DecisionMaking at Ontario Hydro 211
Helen Howes, Ali Khan, Corinne Boone, Takis Plagiannakos, Barb Reuber
10 From an Individual Company's Environmental Management to Substance Chain Management 223
Kathrin Ankele
11 Sustainable Development  From Guiding Principle to Industrial Tool at the Hoechst Company 233
Frank Ebinger, Christoph Ewen, Christian Hochfeld
C International Organizations and Networks on Environmental Management 241
1 Asian Productivity Organization 244
2 Environmental Auditing Research Group 245
3 European Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future  e^5 246
4 European Environmental Reporting Scheme 248
5 European Partners for the Environment 250
6 European Roundtable on Cleaner Production 251
7 Global Environment Management Initiative  GEMI 253
8 Green Cross International 255
9 Greening of Industry Network 257
10 International Network for Environmental Management e.V. - INEM 259
11 International Sustainable Development Research Network 271
12 Network for Environmental Management and Auditing 273
13 United Nations Environment Programme  Industry and Environment  UNEP IE 274
14 Valdez Society, Japan 277
15 Verein fr Umweltmanagement in Banken, Sparkassen und Versicherungen  VfU 278
16 World Business Council for Sustainable Development  WBCSD 279
17 Further International Sources of Information 281
Autors 285
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