Month: May 2023
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Environmental Challenges
Our avid interest in environmental sustainability and environmental management issues can be traced directly to awareness that as the world’s population continues to expand and to consume natural resources, humanity faces shortages that threaten quality of life in developed areas and elsewhere on the Earth, life itself. In attempts to find solutions to these problems,…
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Environmental Management in Industries
Today many industries and companies have recognized the importance of proper environmental management and have switched over from traditional end‐of‐pipe solutions to the integration of environment management in overall management process of the industry. A few major driving forces for such changes are stringent legislation; demand for better work environment for employees; customers’ demands; company’s…
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Benefits
ISO 14001 was developed primarily to assist companies with a framework for better management control that can result in reducing their environmental impacts. In addition to improvements in performance, organizations can reap a number of economic benefits, including higher conformance with legislative and regulatory requirements (Sheldon 1997) by adopting the ISO standard. By minimizing the risk…
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ISO and the Environment
ISO has a multifaceted approach to meeting the needs of all stakeholders from business, industry, governmental authorities, and nongovernmental organizations, as well as consumers, in the field of the environment.
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ISO in Brief
ISO is the International Organization for Standardization. It has a membership of 160 national standards institutes from countries large and small, industrialized, developing and in transition, in all regions of the world. ISO’s portfolio of more than 18 000 standards provides practical tools for all 3 dimensions of sustainable development: economic, environment, and societal. ISO standards…
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ALLIANCES, COALITIONS AND NETWORKS
We have noted that formal groups also allow the formation of informal groups within them. Since these groups are informal, they do not figure in the formal structure. But they inevitably emerge in all the formal groups–recent or old–and significantly influence their functioning. It is the identification of such informal groups within a formal group…
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Introduction
This introductory chapter addresses why industrial environmental management is important! Environmental management is a very crucial part of human well‐being that needs to be deeply considered. Formulated design seeks to steer the development process to take advantage of opportunities, avoid hazards, mitigate problems, and prepare people for unavoidable difficulties by improving adaptability and resilience. It…
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BUREAUCRACY AND NATION-BUILDING: A POST SCRIPT
Bureaucracy assumed additional importance in the context of developing countries. While the Western scholarship focussed on particular formal organizations either within the government or in the corporate sector to witness the functioning of the bureaucracy and relating it to efficiency and effectiveness, bureaucracy was, and is, viewed in the context of the countries of the…
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FORMAL GROUPS: ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Other than communities and primary and secondary relationships is the vast territory of groups–small and large, and formal and informal. Here we focus our attention on the relatively large formal groups, that are mostly Secondary groups. We may mention here that in recent decades, the concept of ‘non-formal’ has also come into vogue, particularly in the field…
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DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY
George A. Hillary Jr., of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, collected 94 definitions of community to analyse their content and produced an excellent paper titled ‘Definitions of Community: Areas of Agreement’.5 Hillary did not attempt to find out the number of times any particular definition has been used,6 but concentrated on various formulations. He identified 16 different…