Topic Map based Indicator System for Environmental Management Systems

Try to reach a particular goal in an environmental management system should be associated with strategies, e.g. for environmental goals, or for environmental policies. Sustainable protection can be achieved so that public environmental departments get the possibility to have a better costs control about planning, doing and checking measurements, or organizations have the possibility to control influences onto its internal and external interrelated processes. But in reality in environmental management systems strategies are unclear, or miss totally. This paper describes how these systems can fill this gap, and derive strategies by linking the fundamentals of the management instrument “Balanced Scorecards” and the semantic network standard ISO/IEC 13250 for Topic Maps together.