Environmental Management: Issues and Solutions / Edition 1

by Michael Atchia, Shawna Tropp

Overview

Environmental Management: Issues and Solutions has grown from a series of seminars on environmental management organized by the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit with input from some 25 governments of developing countries. This volume is a compilation of presentations made at these seminars by over 50 specialist authors from all over the world, and by participants who are executives and key cadres in ministries or organizations from a wide range of developing countries concerned with the environment. Looking at the foundations and policies of sustainable development, the book describes the principles and processes of ecosystems and the basic environmental management tools, including funding possibilities, that are required for environmental management, particularly in developing countries. Thus, covering the basic concepts and principles, together with the tools necessary for such management, a wide range of issues of environmental concern are discussed, with an eye on how to operate a sustainable development policy. This resource book will therefore be of interest to all those whose profession it is to plan and manage the environment, and to achieve sustainability in development. Michael Atchia is the Chief of the Environmental Education and Training Unit at UNEP, and Shawna Tropp is a consultant to UNEP in Nairobi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471955184
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/03/1995
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.15(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Michael Atchia is a Mauritian academician. He is the former chief and programme director with the United Nations Environment Programme. Shawna Tropp is the editor of Environmental Management: Issues and Solutions, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

SOME FOUNDATIONS OF AND POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Human Ecology and Environment Ethics (L. Dangana & S.Tropp).

Environmental Awareness, Education and Training (M. Atchia, etal.).

ECOSYSTEMS: PROCESSES, PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES.

Efforts to Combat Land Degradation (T. Maukonen).

Genetic Resources (H. Zedan).

CASE STUDIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT.

A Brief Overview of Forests (R. Olembo).

The Built-Up Ecosystems (N. Gebremedhin).

The Global Environmental Monitoring Systems (GEMS) (M.Gwynne).

The Role of Law in Environmental Management at the National Level(I. Rummel-Bulska).

The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) (M. Pyhala).

Toxic Chemical: The UNEP International Register (J.Huismans).

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A compilation of over 50 presentations made at a series of seminars on environmental management organized by the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit, with input from some 25 governments in developing countries. The essays examine the foundations and policies of sustainable development, principles and processes of ecosystems, and environmental management tools, including funding possibilities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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