"This book offers research on the economic, social, and environmental objectives essential to the planning and support of future organizations and communities for those interested in designing business models and financial plans with consideration for environmental and social liabilities"--

"EHS auditing has been around since the mid-1970s, when the Securities and Exchange Commission launched enforcement actions against three U.S. Fortune 500 companies that the Commission believed were misleading their shareholders about environmental liabilities. Since then they profession has...

"This book offers research on the economic, social, and environmental objectives essential to the planning and support of future organizations and communities for those interested in designing business models and financial plans with consideration for environmental and social...

1. Perspectives on environmental management -- 2. Overview of environmental certifications -- 3. The environmental certification of organisations : the standard ISO14001 and the EMAS regulation -- 4. The environmental certification of products -- 5. The application of an environmental management...

Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to...