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Business and the Environment

Any job involving environmental management, product stewardship, or corporate environmental accounting, would find Business and the Environment (BATE) an essential aid. Its news coverage cuts across national boundaries and industry sectors to bring readers the best of what's working and to provide critical benchmark information. BATE also advises readers on the environmental management techniques and strategies worth investing in, and lets readers know what they can safely ignore. BATE also reports unbiased case studies on how corporations are implementing environmental strategies.

Environmental management aims to improve the environmental performance of organizations. Effective environmental management examines the intersection between environmental performance and sound business strategies. Many companies have found that effective environmental management translates into increased profits. For example, identifying ways to reduce the quantity of wastes generated by a manufacturing process means lower waste disposal costs for the company. Reducing waste quantities can also mean that certain environmental regulatory requirements no longer apply to a process, thereby reducing compliance costs. Additionally, companies are finding that being an environmental leader can translate into public relations benefits that can result in increased sales. Environmental management buzzwords include "sustainable development," "life-cycle assessment," "beyond compliance," and "product stewardship."

Benefits and Features

• Saves readers money — The money saved from just one good management tip, investment opportunity, or legal or regulatory update more than covers the price of this service. BATE ensures you are up-to-date on every meaningful development worldwide.
• Saves valuable time — The staff at BATE includes a worldwide contact network of experts. They interview the innovators in the field, review journals and papers, attend seminars and conferences, track the news wires, and get to the bottom of controversial issues.
• Saves valuable time — The staff at BATE includes a worldwide contact network of experts. They interview the innovators in the field, review journals and papers, attend seminars and conferences, track the news wires, and get to the bottom of controversial issues.
• Gives critical benchmark information — Lets readers find out how their company measures up to others in the scope, methods, and accomplishments of its environmental programs.
• Helps to determine what’s the best investment — As with any discipline, environmental management has experienced its share of fads and false starts. That's why it's especially vital that the readers receive objective information about what's working and what's not. BATE provides unbiased analysis of the latest trends and techniques in environmental management, including point-counterpoint debates by the experts that cut through the rhetoric and get at the truth.
• Benefit from the experience of others — Around the world, companies are finding new uses for waste material, new methods for streamlining processes, and new angles for marketing themselves as environmental leaders. BATE enables readers to take advantage of proven strategies and techniques and avoid costly mistakes.
• Improves marketing and public relations efforts — Helps readers discover the innovative techniques that companies are using to get their message to their customers, shareholders, news media, and the public and how they're boosting profits by improving their image.