Environmental Management

Taylor & Francis

Environmental ManagementCritical thinking and emerging practices\nAuthor(s): Peter Mulvihill, S. Harris Ali\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138899933, 978-1138899933\nSynopsis\nThe field of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to new policy, regulation and public concern about environmental issues. EM has undergone many changes and improvements since then, progressing from a reactive, compliance-based focus toward, in leading cases, practices reflecting strong commitment to sustainability. And yet, EM remains, for the most part, ill-equipped to deal with the complex and highly uncertain implications of the ecological crisis. \n\nEnvironmental Management offers a rigorous critique of conventional EM and explores alternative ideas, frameworks and approaches that are currently considered \""fringe\"", but which have the poten.