Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention

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Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored by an environmental engineer and an economist/planner, Green Profits shows how to implement an EMS, especially ISO 14001, so that it leads to profitable pollution prevention innovations, and how to identify and implement pollution prevention measures in a sound strategic business framework. Green Profits provides the knowledge and tools for enterprise managers to achieve the benefits of both EMS and P2, and to do so in ways that fit in with existing management systems in their enterprises.

Environmental management systems are planned and organized ways for an enterprise to manage its interactions with the environment, in particular those interactions that consume resources, degrade the environment, and create human health risk. Part I of Green Profits provides a thorough and practical understanding of the elements of EMSs in general and ISO 14001 in particular, tools and techniques for implementing an EMS and achieving ISO 14001 certification, and help with getting the implementation process started.

Pollution prevention involves replacing process technologies that generate pollution with those that do not or that do so much less. It focuses on improving production processes to minimize waste rather than treating effluents or emissions, which add to costs. Part II of Green Profits provides tools such as step-by-step guides to conducting a P2 audit and energy and material balances for identifying P2 opportunities in an enterprise; examples of P2 practices in specific industry sectors; and a set of tools for assessing potential P2 investments from a bottom-line point of view.

With this New Handbook -- · Bring your facility into compliance · Improve your corporate image · Reduce your company's environmental liabilities · Identify and save millions of dollars from pollution prevention projects

This New Handbook Includes -- · A step-by-step approach to implementing ISO 14001 · A step-by-step approach to implementing Pollution Prevention · Contains nearly 100 useful charts and tables used by the experts in establishing environmental action plans, gap analyses, establishing an Environmental Management System · Contains dozens of useful charts and calculation methods with examples for evaluating the costs and savings to your company in implementing Pollution Prevention · Dozens of industry-specific case studies that you can learn and profit from
· Shows you in stepwise fashion how project financing principles and environmental cost accounting methods, when coupled with EMS can save your company money

This New Handbook is unique because unlike other volumes that separately cover Environmental Management Systems and Pollution Prevention, you have it all in one single volume, written by Experts that are Practitioners.

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Review of Green Profits.......2002-10-19

This is an excellent book to generate cost saving ideas from. It combines simple engineering and management principles with a focus on proving to the reader how good environmental performance translates into good economic performance. The authors have done a great job in showing the basic prinicples and benefits of pollution prevention within the context of environmental management systems. The many industry-specific examples on P2 and waste minimization are simply excellent. I highly recommend this book for environmental managers.

Green Profits: The Managers Handbook for ISO 14001 and P2.......2002-10-12

Very informative book with new concepts on how to apply life cycle costs to pollution prevention projects. This book brings together two related subjects very clearly. It has helped our refineries see more clearly how an EMS can be applied within the context of pollution prevention. It clearly shows by many examples reasons for displacing end of pipe treatment trechnologies.

Green Profits: The Managers Handbook for ISO 14001 and P2.......2002-10-08

This is an excellent text that shows both engineers and managers how to apply principles to reducing environmental compliance costs. The works of Dr. Cheremisinoff are well known in the environmental management and pollution prevention fields. This book is a wonderful source of ideas and techniques for senior environmental managers.

Profitable pollution prevention innovations.......2001-09-07

Nicholas Cheremisinoff is a consulting engineer with more than twenty years experience in design, research, development, manufacturing, and teaching. Avrom Bendavid-Val is Vice President for Environment and Development at Chermonics International Inc. In Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 And Pollution Prevention, Cheremisinoff and Bendavid-Val effectively collaborate to cover the two tightly connected topics of environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2). Together they show how to implement an EMS (especially ISO 14001) so that it leads to profitable pollution prevention innovations, and how to identify and implement pollution prevention measures within the context of a sound and strategic business framework. Green Profits provides the information and tools enterprising managers can apply to achieve the benefits of both EMS and P2 -- and do so in ways that fit within the corporation's existing management systems. Nicholas Cheremisinoff and Avrom Bendavid-Val Green Profits is a highly recommended addition to academic, professional, and corporate environmental engineering reference collections.

ISO 14001 Environmental Systems Handbook, Second Edition

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ISO 14001 Environmental Systems Handbook, Second Edition
Ken Whitelaw
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ASIN: 0750648430

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ISO 14001 Environmental Systems Handbook Second Edition outlines the scope and purpose of the standard, making it accessible to all.

The author begins by explaining the concepts of the standard, which sets the tone for a practical guide to implementation of an ISO 14000-compliant environmental management system, which also covers the consultant's and auditor's perspective.

The case studies from industries that have actually undergone the process have been updated to include information on their progress toward environmental objectives in the 18-24 months following implementation. A new case study from a service organisation ( a car lease company) will be added. Finally there is input from training organisations and certification and accreditation bodies to assist with trouble-shooting and assessment. Additional information is also included on international legislative issues. Comparisons with ISO 9000 will also be fully updated to reflect revisions to this standard.

The book will offer the reader a range of options for implementation, and guidance on which is the best option to suit the particular organisation's culture.

* Fully updated to meet the new 2004 amendments to ISO 14001
* New case studies to show how ISO14001 is being implemented and is working for key organisations
* Proven track record of making understanding and implementing ISO14001 accessible

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The revised ISO 14001 environmental management standard launches in 2004. Already established as a key guide to understanding and implementing the standard, this revised edition contains all of the up-to-date information and guidance that those working with or toward the standard, need to make it a success for their organisation. Rewritten, reorganised and fully updated, with extensive new case studies and new resources, this book outlines the scope and purpose of the latest standard, and guides readers clearly through the theory and implementation of an ISO 14001 compliant environmental management system from both the consultant and auditor's perspective. Input from certification and accreditation bodies assists with trouble-shooting and assessment, while the author's wide practical experience as a consultant and certifier give a direct and authoritative edge of reality to this essential guide.

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ISO 14001 Auditing Manual
Gayle Woodside
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
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ASIN: 0071349073

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ISO 14001 auditing made easy. Get clear, thorough, step-by-step instructions for facilitating and simplifying your organization's environmental management system audit. Developed by Gayle Woodside and Patrick Aurrichio, EMS experts with IBM, ISO 14001 Auditing Manual gives you everything you need to gain all the benefits of implementing an EMS and registering it to ISO 14001. The manual features questions and answers typically asked during the registration audit process, and examples of objective evidence proving conformance to the standard. Straightforward explanations plus plans, charts, tables...lists of do's and dont's...examples and templates all combine to show you how to: *Develop an internal EMS audit program and protocol *Train, assign and monitor auditors *Conduct the audit and write the audit report *Handle all the stages of the ISO 14001 registration audit, including selecting a registrar *Much more

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not enough coverage of subject matter to be of merit.......2000-04-14

Coming on the heels of the author's previous book on the subject, this book was a disappointment for several fundamental reasons: it does not cover the matter in detail, and the examples provided are of no real fundamental value. It would appear that someone at McGraw-Hill (the publisher) was realy asleep at the wheel to let this manuscripy go out the way it did.

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The ISO 14000 EMS Audit Handbook is an innovative and cost-effective approach for the Environmental Management System (EMS) audit to ISO 14001. The Handbook presents comprehensive strategies for conducting all phases of the EMS audit, including effective assessment processes for determining improved environmental performance, commitment to prevention of pollution, and continuous improvement. The audit concepts, techniques, and methodologies presented meet and exceed the requirements set forth by national and international accreditation bodies for the training and certification of EMS auditors and lead auditors.

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The Iso 14000 Handbook

Manufacturer: Amer Society for Quality
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ASIN: 1883337054

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ISO 14000 are the environmental standards established by the ANSI. This groundbreaking handbook contains the work of top ISO 14000 experts, many of whom assisted in developing the standards themselves. Now published by ASQ Quality Press, The ISO 14000 Handbook provides specific, practical, and authoritative guidance on documenting and identifying such issues as: the right time to begin implementation; advantages and disadvantages to ISO 14000 implementation; full versus partial implementation; how the ISO 14000 process fits into corporate culture; contains the actual full-text versions of the ANSI/ISO 14001 and 14004 standards.

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ISO 14001 EMS Implementation Handbook
Hewitt Roberts , and Gary Robinson
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Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance: A Handbook for Integrating Pollution Prevention with ISO 14000

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Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance: A Handbook for Integrating Pollution Prevention with ISO 14000
Thomas Elliott Welch
Manufacturer: CRC
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Since the U.S. Department of Energy (as well as other Federal and International agencies) will stop granting contracts to companies that fail to comply with 14000 standards, the search is on for any book that will make 14000 compliance easier. Tom Welch, with more than 20 years experience in environmental engineering and project management, provides such a book! Moving Beyond Environmental Compliance: A Handbook for Integrating Pollution Prevention with ISO 14000 is the first text to combine the best aspects of Pollution Prevention (P2), Total Quality Management (TQM), and ISO 14000, into a comprehensive "how-to" guidebook for achieving environmental compliance. The ever-increasing cost of environmental compliance as it is passed onto consumers, cuts into the profit margin and reduces an organization's competitive edge. At the very least, compliance cuts into operating budgets, and directs attention away from the primary business of an organization. This handbook demystifies the implementation of effective environmental management systems as described in the ISO 14000, and clarifies the application of effective pollution prevention methodologies that can drastically reduce this compliance burden.

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The ISO 14000 MiniGuide
Craig R. Mesler , and Thomas J. Flahive
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ASIN: 0527763241

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If your organization is considering implementing an environmental management system and complying to the ISO 14000 standard, this miniguide is the perfect way to get everyone up to speed.

Written in clear, concise language, the booklet starts with a "question and answer" section, and follows up with an overview of the five major ISO 14001 requirements and all of their subclauses.

After reading The ISO 14000 Miniguide, you and your team will understand the details of the ISO 14001 requirements, their impact on existing management systems, and the approaches to achieving ISO 14000 certification.

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There is a strong awareness that the new economy has arrived, and that firms and management need to focus on a plethora of new issues at present only dimly perceived. The astute management of technology can advance not only the fortunes of the innovators, but also of society at large. In this book, David Teece considers how firms can exploit technological innovation, protecting their intellectual capital, while staying ahead of the competition. He provides frameworks as well as practical advice, looking in particular at the organization structure most likely to support innovation, and how managerial decision and strategy affect the division of the gains. This will be essential reading for academics, managers, and students alike who want to keep abreast of contemporary strategic challenges.

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Highly Recommended!.......2001-09-20

In his preface, author David J. Teece promises a theoretical framework for understanding intellectual property and practical advice about managing it. Theory ultimately prevails in this book, but valuable nuggets of managerial guidance await any entrepreneur willing to dig for them. As a professor and as the presenter of Oxford's Clarendon Lecture in Management Studies, from which this book is drawn, Teece naturally tends toward abstract thinking. Some of the territory has been traveled before (i.e. the message that bureaucratic, hierarchical organizations tend to stifle innovation) but Teece adds a lot of intriguing material. We [...] believe analytically minded academics, entrepreneurs and executives will find Teece's volume illuminating, most notably his educated perspective on antitrust activism in the high tech arena. He concludes that government regulators should probably stick to regulating industries they understand. Well, if they want to understand intellectual property, they should start here.

Managing Intellectual Capital. What, how and by whom?.......2001-08-28

You are about to realize a misconception between two related but different terms: intellectual capital and intellectual property. Browsing throughout the book you will hardly find any references to intellectual capital, including a brief definition! Thus you should not be surprised by not finding any reference to intellectual capital in the Index. One would expect some heated discussion over this controversial concept before being offered a framework to manage it. Forget it. Despite author's attempt to write about the promising field of IC all sections seem to converge around the intellectual property discussion. The management of intellectual capital is something else than the management of intellectual capital. The wrong audiences may than be easily caught in this trap.

Provocative theoretical perspectives, some well-worn.......2001-05-26

This is an excellent book on the knowledge-based view of the firm. Although Teece is unsure in his preface whoether is succesfully addresses both academic audiences and managers. From an academic perspective, I can surely claim that this book is theoretically interesting. I recognized two portions of this book that draw heavily on Teece's work published previously in California Management Review (parts of Chapter 1 and all of chapter 4). What is certainly most interesting out of the 300 pages of small type is Section 2. This section provides a compelling set of arguments on the impact of market structures and governance modes on intellectual capital. Notabily missing, however, is incorporation of the knowledge-integration perspective that Grant et. al have been building for the past half decade. The case study on Pilkinton Glass is also well worn, and Teece clearly acknowledges that. Information technologists should not hold thier breath because this work seems to take a rather passive stand on the role of IT in mobilizing intellectual assets. The references at the end provide an impressive array of literature in economics that Teece draws on. The readibility and plausibility of Teece's arguments should come as no surprise to anyone who has read Teece's earlier scholarly work. Overall, I'd say that this was worth the thirty five dollars.

Managing Intellectual Capital : Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)

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Managing Intellectual Capital : Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
David J. Teece
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
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ASIN: B000OL4DY4

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Managing Intellectual Capital: Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
David J. Teece
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OL64R8

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