Corporate Environmental Management : A Study With Reference To India

This compact text explains, in a simple and straightforward style, the importance of environmental management in the context of sustainable economic development, with special reference to India.

The book starts by giving an overview of problems, issues and the objectives of corporate environmental management. It deals with corporate environmental challenges and the responses thereof in relation to atmosphere, land, water bodies, and the effects of biotechnology on biodiversity, as well as the corporate responses to these environmental challenges. The need for and effects of environmental regulations have also been fully explained. The text then explains various environmental legislations of India and the various international environmental develop-ments. The book concludes with an analysis of accounting and reporting practices followed by the corporate sector in India.

This book will prove to be very handy for all those who are concerned with the effects of mindless economic growth on the environment. Besides, researchers in the field of environmental studies should find it valuable as a source of reference.

1. Introduction

2. Environmental Challenges And Corporate Responses

3. Environmental Regulations

4. Corporate Environmental Management

5. Accounting And Reporting For Corporate Environmental Management

6. Corporate Environmental Accounting In India

7. Suggestions And Conclusions

Index