Environmental Management - Vijay Kulkarni Ramachandra T.V. (New Delhi TERI Press, 2006)
Keywords: Environmental management. -- Environmental policy -- Environmental impact assessment -- environmental auditing -- Life cycle assessment -- Environmental economics -- Principles of environmental management : Introduction, ecosystem concepts, biomass, energy and energy flow, food chains, participants in EM, ethics and environment, international environmental movement, environmental concerns in India -- Policy and legal aspects of EM : Environmental policy instruments EPI, environmental policies and programs in India, environmental laws and legislations, environmental legislations in India -- Environmental impact assessment EIA : Forecasting environmental change, strategic environmental assessment, environmental clearance procedure in India -- EIA documentation and processes : Preliminary stages of EIA, impact prediction, evaluation and mitigation, impact on decisions, participation, requisites and review, EIA monitoring and auditing -- Environmental auditing : Introduction to environmental auditing, general audit methodology, elements of audit process, waste audits and pollution prevention assessments, EA in industrial projects, liability audits and site assessment, auditing of EMS -- Life cycle assessment LCA : Evolution of life cycle assessment, stages in product LCA, code of good conduct for LCA< procedure for LCA, different applications of LCA -- Environmental management system standards : Environmental management systems, EMS standard - ISO 14000 series, implementation of EMS conforming to ISO 14001, benefits of implementing ISO 14001 -- Environmental management techniques : Environmental monitoring and modeling, senitivity analysis, application f remote sensing and GIS in EM, environmental profile, environmental technology assessment, environmental risk assessment, rapid urban environmental assessment, eco mapping, environmental education -- Environmental design : Environmental design, ED for manufactured products, ED for buildings, ED for developmental planning -- Environmental economics : Economics and environment, environmental valuation, economics of natural resources, environment and regional economics, ecological economics