There is increasing awareness of the importance of understanding corporate Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) and their relationships with sustainability, competitiveness and institutional practice. This book provides insights into strategic and sustainable EMSs, focusing on examples from around the world.

Introduction Robert Sroufe, Duquesne University, USA, and Joseph Sarkis, Clark University, USA Part I: EMS planning and design 1. EPI Design: Integrating corporate strategies into the development process of an environmental performance evaluation system Enrico Cagno, Lorenzo Tardini and Paolo Trucco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2. A comparison of environmental management system components and practices Gwen Christini, Montgomery Watson Harza, USA, and Deanna H. Matthews and Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 3. EMS and sustainable development: A model and comparative studies of integration Ulku Oktem, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Phil Lewis, Rohm and Haas Corporation, USA, Deborah Donovan, Sunoco, USA, James R. Hagan, GlaxoSmithKline, UK, and Thomas Pace, Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co., USA 4. Designing a sustainability management system at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA case study Kellie A. McElhaney and Michael W. Toffel, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Natalie Hill, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA 5. Core values and environmental management: A strong inference approach John D. Hanson, Steven A. Melnyk and Roger J. Calantone, The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, USA Part II: Implementation and operation 6. A product-based environmental management system Kathleen Donnelly, Arjen Salemink, Frederick Blechinger, Albrecht Schuh and Theresa Boehm, Lucent Technologies, Inc. 7. Environmental reporting on the internet: From a technical tool to a strategic necessity Ralf Isenmann, University of Bremen, Germany, and Christoph Bey, ESCEM School of Business and Management Tours-Poitiers, France 8. Web-based environmental management systems for SMEs Adeline Maijala, Lassi Linnanen and Tuula Pohjola, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 9. Integrating sustainability practices into power generation operations Teresa DeBono, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, USA 10. The environmental management system of the Environmental Services Department of Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, Calliopi Raftopoulou, Charalampos N. Kavouras and Panagiotis Karamanos, Environmental Services Department, Athens International Airport, Greece Part III: Environmental management system evaluation 11. Factors influencing the implementation of environmental management systems, practices and performance Olaf Weber, Department of Environmental Sciences and GOE, Zurich, Switzerland 12. Environmental management systems in the US and Thailand: A case comparison Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Duke University, USA, Richard N.L. Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Achara Chandrachai, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and Kaewta Rohitratana, Thammasat University, Thailand 13. Change management: Sustainable development via an augmented EMS Martin Callinan, University of Melbourne, Australia 14. Environmental management systems and environmental performance Jonas Ammenberg, Link

Environmental management systems are key to the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of sustainability strategies, and Sroufe and Sarkis have selected and encouraged a wide range of authors to provide their important perspectives on EMSs. These authors, hailing from different countries and addressing different industry sectors, illuminate the complexity of EMSs, from their initiation through their assessment, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence that EMSs matter for organisational, including sustainability, performance. If you are looking for a sophisticated, panoramic view of the strategic approach to environmental management systems, this is a broad and deep source of interesting and useful research on this vital sustainability topic.

This book provides intriguing insights into strategic and sustainable EMSs. It provides clear evidence of benefits that should exceed the costs (tangible and otherwise), and help practitioners understand the attributes of well-developed and strategically focused EMSs.