Environmental Management

The practice of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to new policy, regulation and public concern about environmental issues. EM has undergone many changes and improvements since then, progressing from a reactive, compliance-based focus toward, in leading cases, practices reflecting strong commitment sustainability. And yet, EM remains, for the most part, a conservative field, largely reactive, unimaginative, and ill-equipped to deal with the complex and highly uncertain implications of the ecological crisis.

This new book offers a rigorous critique of conventional EM and explores alternative ideas, frameworks and approaches that are currently considered "fringe", but which have the potential to transform the practice of EM. These new approaches are more flexible and robust, and better equipped to address future environmental problems of scale and severity previously unforeseen.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental management, environmental planning, resource management, and environmental assessment.

Peter Mulvihill is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada.

S. Harris Ali is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada.