The environmental management is the subrange of the management of an organization (enterprise, authority, etc.), which with the operational and official environment (protection) sue themselves of the organization busily. It serves a lasting environmental compatibility of the operational products and processes for the safety device on the one hand as well as the behaviors of the coworkers and Stakeholder on the other hand. To it belong among other things

• the environmental policy of the organization, e.g. an identification and an activation of the Schnittmengen from ecological and economically favourable measures
• environmental protection, e.g. technical measures for the decrease of the environmental effects, avoidance of not justifiable environmental damages and -, contributions inanspruchnahmen for the precaution and reorganization
• the environmental achievement (the measurable results concerning the impact on the environment (EN), thus e.g. emissions, waste water, soil impurities, etc.)
• the adherence to of the official editions and/or the legal limit values
• the standardisation responsibility, i.e. a support of a ecology-fair behavior standardisation of the Stakeholder

Procedure

The environmental management converts with the help of the environmental management system the defaults of the line of an organization (and concomitantly the official/legal requirements) regarding environmental protection. For this appropriate requirements (defaults) in the management manual, in various instructions and/or in descriptions of process, are specified whose conversion and monitoring take place then via the environmental management system.

The environmental management system again can be developed freely or in accordance with a default, e.g. the environmental management standard ISO 14001 or the EMAS regulation. Recommendations for the environmental management (and for the environmental management system) are in the standard ISO 14004 conceived as manual (environmental management systems: General manual over principles, systems and auxiliary instruments). Both the ISO 14001 and the ISO 14004 were published in November 2004 in a revised version. The environmental management and the environmental management system are interlocked closely with one another. In November 2004 the published environmental management standard EN ISO 14001:2004 only the term environmental management system is used.

The so-called default documents usual in the environmental management (management manual, instructions, descriptions, etc.) specify the respective competencies (responsibilities) beside the defaults necessary for the reaching of the goals of the operational environmental policy also. Often is a modular structure of the management documentation.

As in the management generally usual, contain the environmental management planning, execution, control and if necessary optimization (PDCA: Plan but hitting a corner act):

• Planning (plan): Definition of the objectives and processes, in order to reach the conversion of the environmental policy of the organization
• Execution (DO): the conversion of the processes
• Control (check): Monitoring of the processes regarding legal and other requirements as well as goals of the environmental policy of the organization; if necessary publication of the environmental achievement (the success of the organization regarding their environmental protection measures)
• Optimization (act): If necessarily the processes must become corrected (adapted); the standard ISO 14001 and the EMAS regulation speak of a constant improvement of the processes, i.e. the organization should optimize their processes constantly

See also

• ISO 14001 DIN EN ISO standard to the environmental management
• EMAS Environmental management and audit Scheme (European Union audit)
• ecology-oriented management economics
• Church environmental management - the Green Gockel

Literature

Specialized books

• Paul de Backer: Environmental management in the enterprise. Springer publishing house, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-540-60510-X
• Annett tree branch, Jens Pape (Hrsg.): Operational environmental management. Theoretical bases and practical examples. . and revised edition, Ulmer publishing house, Stuttgart updated 2 2003, ISBN 3-8001-4214-7
• Gastl: "“Continuous improvement in the environmental management, the KVP demand of the ISO 14001 in theory and enterprise practice"”. vdf, Zurich, 2005, ISBN 3-7281-3034-6, www.cmrg.ch/kvp-publikation.htm
• Martin Philip Kunig, Michael Stitzel: Environmental policy. Dietz, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-8012-0283-6
• Matthias Kramer, Maria Urbaniec, Liane (Hrsg.): International environmental management. Volume 1: Interdisciplinary basic conditions of an environmentaloriented management. Gabler publishing house, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-409-12317-2
• Matthias Kramer, Jana Brauweiler, Klaus mounting jig (Hrsg.): International environmental management. Volume 2: Environmental management instruments and - systems. Gabler publishing house, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-409-12318-0
• Matthias Kramer, Heinz Strebel, Gernot Kayser (Hrsg.): International environmental management. Volume 3: Operational environmental management in the international and interdisciplinary context. Gabler publishing house, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-409-12319-9

Essays

• Sven Gembrys, Dirk Juhre, Krhn: Everything under a roof: Comprehensive environmental protection and process orientated management system in the practical conversion. Quality and reliability 44 (7), P. 866 - 872 (1999), ISSN 0720-1214
• M. Tobias: Environmental management on Nature protection authorities as service enterprise. Magazine for environmental policy and environment law 24 (3), P. 443 - 454 (2001), ISSN 0343-7167
• R. Kuhn, Ith Varela: To well-being of environment and enterprise - synergies during the introduction of an environmental management system use. Quality and reliability 46 (4), P. 420 - 423 (2001), ISSN 0720-1214
• Anonym: Step by step: Environmental management for KMU. Environmental magazine 34 (12), P. 32 - 33 (2004), ISSN 0173-363X
• T. Pfeifer, R. Schmitt, R. Greshake: Concept for a preventive environmental management. Quality and reliability 49 (9), P. 80 - 81 (2004), ISSN 0720-1214

Related links:

• stmugv.bayern.de - further environmental management systems information page of the Bavarian Department of State for environment, health and consumer protection to the environmental management
• umweltmanagement.at extensive data base to the topic with reference to Austrian organizations (enterprises, administrations, environmental consultant, etc.)
• environment schweiz.ch - environmental management and certifying information page of the Swiss federal office for environment (BAFU) to the environmental management
• visumsurf.ch - virtual one school for environmental management knowledge platform for environmental management in different industries

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