Environmental management systems and technological environmental innovations: Exploring the causal relationship

Promoting Technological Environmental Innovations: The Role of Environmental Regulation

This paper reviews and discusses the debate over the effectiveness of environmental regulation in promoting industrial Technological Environmental Innovation (TEI). Using the innovation-friendly regulatory principles adapted from Porter and van der Linde (1995a, 1995b), this paper demonstrates how properly designed and implemented environmental regulation (TEI promoting regulation) has played a...

Study of environmental management systems on defence

The effective and sustainable environmental performance of a business is a result of various factors and most important the integrated outcome of the environmental management. Likewise, the integration of environmental protection into the armed forces functions has also gain interest for the military sector internationally. Therefore, the environmental management system (EMS) is recognized as o...

Environmental policy and technological

Environmental Management, Environmental Information Systems, and Knowledge Management

Environmental management in organizations is on the one hand a very complex topic area and on the other hand a task done not always with highest priority. Therefore an effective and efficient conception must be developed in particular here. The conception of an environmental information system is based here on the structures of management manuals. Beyond that it is pointed out that environmenta...

Environmental measures for hotels’ environmental management systems

Purpose – Implementation of environmental management systems (EMS) in hotels is gaining popularity world-wide. ISO 14001, which is the only certifying document in the ISO 14000 series, provides guidelines to set up an EMS. However, there is a paucity of information about the actual environmental measures implemented in ISO 14001 certified hotels. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to ident...