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Environmental Management Systems for
Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention
The most common approach to management for
sustainable business is to use an Environmental Management System (EMS). EMS
are intended to provide a framework for improving environmental performance.
The most well-known EMS standard is the ISO 14001 standard. This is
copyright and cannot be reproduced here, but the publications described
below have extensive information about the standard and are more than
sufficient for understanding and using it. There are more generic versions
of EMS available, but all follow a similar design of Plan-Do-Check-Act and
emphasize continuous improvement.
Also included here are the 2002 guidelines for the Malcolm Baldridge Quality
Award. This is a system for evaluating management performance that is quite
similar to the EMS standards and guidelines, but has more detail. Also, the
winners of the Baldridge Award have an excellent record in performing better
than other companies in their industries. The Baldridge criteria
specifically include environmental performance.
There have been new developments since 2002 in management for
sustainability. The UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative's
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines provide management frameworks for social
as well as environmental performance. The latest guidelines are included
here after the EMS resources. And we have included at the end a software
program from EPA that is quite good for environmental management at any kind
of organization.
Environmental Management Systems
The documents described here are recommended
for understanding and implementing Environmental Management Systems. The
publications are presented in a recommended order for review, beginning with
overviews of approaches and general frameworks.
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Improving Environmental Performance
and Compliance: 10 Elements of Effective Environmental Management
Systems
Commission for Environmental Cooperation, North American Free Trade
Agreement. 2000. 9 pages.
Brief introduction to the basic concepts of EMS.
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ISO 14001 Conformance Evaluation
Worksheet
Unknown. 2000. 3 pages.
Lists all the required elements of an ISO 14001 EMS in the form of
statements, with boxes to rate the level of conformance and
implementation. Good for quickly understanding all the elements and
implementation aspects.
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EMS Training Kit
Philippine Business for the Environment. 2001. 100 pages.
This is a training program with presentation slides in PDF format. Well
designed and easy to follow.
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Environmental Management Systems: An
Implementation Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations
NSF International. 2001. 201 pages
Perhaps the best publication on this topic. Use a relatively generic
approach to EMS, with many short examples, good illustrations and
excellent design and graphics.
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Integrated Environmental Management
Systems Implementation Guide
US Environmental Protection Agency. 2001. 339 pages.
Extensive and highly detailed guide to EMS with a focus on design of
products and services. Includes a template based on the EMS plan of a
fictional company and blank worksheets for completing EMS elements.
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ISO 14001 Implementation Manual
National Center for Environmental Decision-Making Research. 1998. 97
pages.
Detailed step-by-step guidance for ISO 14001 implementation, with
excellent design. In a format easily customized to a company.
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ISO 14001 - Implementing an
Environmental Management System
Ellipson Management Consultants. 1998. 90 pages.
Step-by-step guidance with supplementary technical information for more
detailed understanding of issues analysis and developing an
implementation strategy.
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The US EPA Environmental Management
System Pilot Program for Local Government Entities
Global Environment & Technology Foundation. 1999. 136 pages.
Implementation and results of a project developing EMS for nine local
government entities.
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Implementing an Environmental
Management System in Community-Based Organizations
NSF International. 1998. 137 pages.
Report on six projects to implement EMS at community organizations such
as golf courses, a hospital and a small village.
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Drivers, Designs, and Consequences of
Environmental Management Systems
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Environmental
Law Institute. 2001. 204 pages.
This document provides a compendium of research papers and publications
that have been produced from the National Database on Environmental
Management Systems as of March 2001. Discusses who develops EMS, why,
how, and results obtained.
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Environmental Management Systems
Guidebook
US Air Force. 1998. 54 pages.
Developed by the US Air Force for use in its own operations. Good
example of EMS for a large organization.
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Working with Smaller Businesses to
Implement Environmental Management Systems
The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation. 2001. 55
pages.
Report and proceedings of a conference for organizations promoting EMS.
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EMS Document Templates
Unknown. 1999. 17 pages
Collection of blank templates for completing elements of an EMS.
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Documenting Your Environmental
Management Plan: A Workbook for Small Business.
US EPA. 2003. 80 pages.
Practical examples of an EMS documentation system - a hands-on guide
with forms, checklists and more. Great graphic design too.
Sustainability
Management Frameworks
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SIGMA Project – Sustainability
Integrated Guidelines for Management
British Standards Institution, 2003.
The Guidelines consist of a set of Guiding Principles that help
organisations to understand sustainability and their contribution to it,
and a Management Framework that integrates sustainability issues into
core processes and mainstream decision-making. It is structured into
phases and sub-phases. There are about a dozen technical manuals to
support the Guidelines, all included in this zip file. This is one of
the most comprehensive sustainability management guides in existence.
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Strategic challenges for business in
the use of corporate responsibility codes, standards, and frameworks.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development. 2004. 48 pages.
Provides overviews of about a dozen leading international standards for
responsible organizations.
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G3 Draft Sustainability Reporting
Guidelines
Global Reporting Initiative. 2005. 56 pages.
These are the recent global standard for reporting on sustainability,
and by inference, on what to manage for sustainability. The zip file
includes a background document, the Guidelines, and technical
supplements.
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High 5! Communicating your Business
Success through Sustainability Reporting - A Guide for Small and
Not-So-Small Businesses
Global Reporting Initiative. 2005. 56 pages.
High 5! is a guide designed to help you better integrate economic,
environmental, and social information about your products, services, and
activities into your business communications. It is a simplified version
of the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines from GRI.
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Building the UN Global Compact
Principles into Business: A Practical Integration Guide.
Business for Social Responsibility. 2005. 33 pages.
Easy guide for understanding the Global Compact and how to make it
practical.
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UN Global Compact Trainers Manual
(226 pages) and Participants Training Manual (200 pages)
UN. 2005.
Very comprehensive training materials covering the principles of the
Global Compact, the issues and resources, case studies, exercises and
more. Solid introduction to Triple Bottom Line management.
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The Stakeholder Engagement Manual.
Volume 1: The Guide to Practitioner's Perspectives on Stakeholder
Engagement.
UN, 2005. 88 pages.
Presents the results of dialogue with business, non-profits, labor,
trade and other stakeholders regarding how they want to engage for
sustainable development.
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The Stakeholder Engagement Manual.
Volume 2: The Practitioner’s Handbook on Stakeholder Engagement.
UN, 2005. 150 pages.
Provides practical guidance on how to work with stakeholders.
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A business guide to development
actors
World Business Council for Sustainable Development. 2004. 112 pages.
Many development agencies are pushing the frontiers of sustainable
development and management and they can be a major force affecting
business as well as valuable resources. This guide introduces major
development organizations and their programs.
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Balanced Scorecard and
Sustainability: State of the Art Review
Center for Management of Environmental Resources, INSEAD, France.
2002. 86 pages.
Excellent article showing how the Balanced Scorecard can be used as a
general framework for managing sustainability. Includes extensive
background information and literature reviews.
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Business and Economic Development:
The Impact of Corporate Responsibility Standards and Practices
AccountAbility, 2003. 76 pages.
Examines how business impacts a wide range of economic indicators
relevant to sustainability and suggests ways to measure "economic good"
created.
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Baldrige Award Criteria for
Performance Excellence
National Institute for Standards and Technology. 2002. 66 pages.
Evaluation system for measuring management performance that provides
extensive details and identifies key areas for performance management.
Specifically includes environmental criteria in several sections.
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Healthy School Environments
Assessment Tool (HealthySEAT)
US EPA. 2005.
This software program is designed to be customized and used by
district-level staff to conduct completely voluntary self-assessments of
their school (and other) facilities and to track and manage information
on environmental conditions school by school. It works just fine for any
organization with multiple facilities, or even just one facility. The
report and checklist generators are very useful.
Text copyright 2002, Hamner and Associates LLC /
www.cleanerproduction.com
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