Integrated Facility Environmental Management Approaches
Lessons from Industry for Department of Defense Facilities
Commercial facilities have discovered that pursuing integrated, facility wide approaches to environmental management is good for the environment and makes good business sense. Direct benefits can include cost savings, increased operational flexibility, and improved public image. But despite the benefits, implementation can be difficult, as Department of Defense (DoD) installations have discovered while trying such integrated approaches. Commercial facilities similar to DoD installations offer insights about how to implement integrated approaches successfully. Demonstrated success factors include getting and sustaining high-level leadership support for change until change is complete, which will take time; implementing an effective environmental management system, often based on an international environmental management standard, ISO 14001, throughout the organization; establishing proactive environmental goals and activities with clear relationships to the organization's core values and mission; training and motivating personnel; using creative environmental assessment and priority setting techniques; developing good relationships with all stakeholders. The commercial lessons offered here can help DoD and other organizations implement integrated facility wide approaches to environmental management.
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- Year: 2001
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Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Environmental Policy Context
Chapter Three
Proactive Integrated Environmental Management Approaches
Chapter Four
Setting Environmental Goals and Aligning Environmental Activities with Them
Chapter Five
Environmental Assessment, Metrics, and Priority Setting
Chapter Six
Promoting Effective Relationships with Relevant Stakeholders
Chapter Seven
Training and Motivating All Employees
Chapter Eight
Conclusions
Appendix A
Proctor & Gamble Mehoopany Environmental Management Case Study
Appendix B
Walt Disney World Resort Environmental Management Case Study
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