Perspectives in Environmental Management

ISBN-13: 9783540538158 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 276 str.

Ralf Buckley

Opis

Presents a set of 15 recent review essays which identify and examine critical current issues in environmental management. Topics covered include environmental accounting, economics and taxation, environmental audit and insurance and institutional and administrative frameworks.

Spis treści

1 Critical Problems.- 2 Environmental Sensitivity Mapping: A Regional Planning Tool.- 3 Environmental Accounting: Techniques and Limitations.- 4 Equity, Public Resources and National Accounts.- 5 Economic Instruments of Environmental Policy.- 6 National Audit of Environmental Impact Predictions.- 7 Guidelines for Environmental Audit.- 8 Environmental Insurance.- 9 Shortcomings in Institutional Frameworks.- 10 The Role of Environmental Scientists.- 11 Environmental Research by the Private Sector.- 12 Environmental Planning and Policy for Green Tourism.- 13 Environmental Impacts of Recreation in Parks and Reserves.- 14 Environmental Implications of Development Aid.- 15 Trends in the 1990’s.- Afterword.

O autorze

Practitioners and decision makers in environmental management will get with these essays fundamental help for the decision process in all parts of environmental planning and management, ranging from sensitivity mapping to ecotourism planning activities.