What Environmental Managers Really Need to Know

Citation

Rieder, R. (1999), "What Environmental Managers Really Need to Know", Environmental Management and Health, Vol. 10 No. 5, pp. 58-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/emh.1999.10.5.58.3

What Environmental Managers Really Need to Know has been written for new and inexperienced environmental and human resources professionals. The book provides readers with the critical information and resources they need to understand and succeed in their new roles. Filled with real‐world examples, it discusses the problems and challenges of environmental management and provides practical, achievable solutions. Using a conversational tone, author David Schell focuses on understanding the major regulations, dealing with employees, quantifying the benefits of a program or project, using a team approach, handling stress, developing “environmental lookouts”, and learning essential business and financial manage‐ment rules. In addition, Schell examines common concerns such as job description and accountability; regulations, laws, paperwork, permits, and compliance; management principles; auditing; training; and the future of environmental management. Brief discussions of the newer areas of strategic environmental management, zero emissions, ISO 14000, and environmental cost accounting are also included.

Over and above these features, the book includes four time‐saving and essential appendices containing 230 environmental definitions and 324 acronyms; regulatory agency offices, Web sites, and important information for ten US EPA offices, 79 state organizations, and 175 international contacts; and contact information for 16 periodicals. The appendices also include 81 Internet resources referencing career/job hunting listings, case studies, associations and education, databases, environmental cost accounting, ISO 14000, pollution prevention, recycling, and regulations Web sites, listservers, discussion groups, and newsgroups. Although the context of this book is North American, it may be of great interest to practitioners in other parts of the world as well.