Corporate Environmental Management, Second Edition, provides environmental industry executives, the investment community, and students a basis for measuring corporate environmental activities and standing. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the technical, cost, and regulatory issues that environmental managers face. Sustainable development, conservation environmental science, and emissions trading are examined, as well as issues such as RCRA and CERCLA hazardous and chemical waste management. This new edition is updated throughout and adds a chapter on the newer global environmental guidelines and regulations (Paris Climate Agreement, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Trans-Pacific Partnerships (TPP)).
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Environmental Management Assessment
Chapter 3 Lines of Inquiry
Chapter 4 Assessment Model and Analytical Framework
Chapter 5 Internal Survey
Chapter 6 Corporate Commitment
Chapter 7 Communication
Chapter 8 Functional Implementation
Chapter 9 Measurement Systems
Chapter 10 Benchmark Survey
Chapter 11 External Survey
Chapter 12 Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Proactive Strategies
Chapter 13 Environmental Risk Assessment Issues
Chapter 14 Emergency Response Analysis
Chapter 15 Corporate Health and Safety System
Chapter 16 Environmental Risk Management at Banking Institutions
Chapter 17 Global Warming
Chapter 18 Assessment of International Trends
Chapter 19 Summary
Biography
John Darabaris, currently in a management capacity, was formerly a division vice president with Kearney/Centaur, where he conducted numerous corporate environmental management assessments and benchmarking studies as well as "best practice" studies. He is an experienced environmental management professional, knowledgeable in both environmental management and regulatory strategy as related to complex, sophisticated industry environmental activities. Possessing both a professional engineer (PE) license and a non-practicing certified public accountant (CPA) certificate, he marries both engineering and management perspectives to the impacts of corporate environmental management and related regulatory strategy development. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded an honorary professional development degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and a commendation from the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Omaha office.