Environmental management

The environmental management indicates the methods of management of an entity (undertaken, service…) aiming taking into account the environmental impact of its activities, evaluating this impact and at reducing it. Environmental management falls under a prospect for Sustainable development.

The motivations of the company can be several types: observance of the regulations, to improve the image of the company, to improve the relations with the residents (for the polluting companies), to make economies, to obtain a environmental Certification claimed by the customers of the company or a écolabel…

The system of environmental management (or EMS) is defined like " component of the system of total management which includes the organisational structure, the activities of planning, the responsibilities, the practices, the procedures, the processes and the resources to establish, implement, to realize, review and to maintain the policy environnementale" (§2.1 of the ISO standard 14050 which definite the EMS).

The actions undertaken within the framework of a system of environmental management can be:

  • a écobilan of the lines of business
  • the écoconception of the products
  • prevention of the Pollution
  • reduction in the consumption of the natural resources
  • reduction in the consumption of energy
  • the reduction of the Waste S
  • education with the environment
  • certification according to the environmental Standard S
  • the implication of the suppliers and subcontractors by encouraging them to adopt a system of environmental management

Environmental management uses tools like the écobilan to determine the impact of the activities of the organization on the Environnement. The environmental impacts are evaluated according to their gravity and of their frequency. One must also take into account the potential effects, for example in the event of accident.

Environmental management is brought to evolve/move to take into account the results of measurements of impacts, while following a process of continuous improvement. It must take into account lawful, technical and economic constraints. This new form of management calls upon quite as new competences. Certain companies are made accompany in front of complexity by the installation by procedures by environmental management. The purpose of several initiatives coming as well from the public as of private consultancies are the installation of tools to facilitate the application of these procedures such as for example an exhaustive encyclopedia of the clauses of durable purchases.

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: Category: Policy or program related to the environment

External bonds

  • UTT/master MEDD (University of Technology of Troyes/Environmental Management and Sustainable development)
  • UBO/master ADE (University of Western Brittany/Installation, Development, Environment)

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