Environmental management system, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 17 relations: Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, Energy consumption, Environmental policy, Environmental resource management, Greenhouse gas, Greenhouse gas emissions, Industrial ecology, ISO 14000 family, Life-cycle assessment, PDCA, Petroleum industry, Regulatory compliance, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Waste minimisation, Web application, Z-Wave, Zigbee.

2. Economy and the environment
3. Management frameworks
4. Sustainability and environmental management

Eco-Management and Audit Scheme

The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary environmental management instrument, which was developed in 1993 by the European Commission.

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Energy consumption

Energy consumption is the amount of energy used.

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Environmental policy

Environmental policy is the commitment of an organization or government to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues.

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Environmental resource management

Environmental resource management or environmental management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment.

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Greenhouse gas

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.

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Greenhouse gas emissions

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.

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Industrial ecology

Industrial ecology (IE) is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. Environmental management system and industrial ecology are Economy and the environment.

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ISO 14000 family

The ISO 14000 family of standards by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) relate to environmental management that exists to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b) comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements; and (c) continually improve in the above.

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Life-cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service.

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PDCA

PDCA or plan–do–check–act (sometimes called plan–do–check–adjust) is an iterative design and management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products.

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Petroleum industry

The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.

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Regulatory compliance

In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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Waste minimisation

Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced.

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Web application

A web application (or web app) is application software that is accessed using a web browser.

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Z-Wave

Z-Wave is a wireless communications protocol used primarily for residential and commercial building automation.

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Zigbee

Zigbee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and other low-power low-bandwidth needs, designed for small scale projects which need wireless connection.

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See also

Economy and the environment

• Agriculture and the environment
• Alternative Bank Switzerland
• Buy Quiet
• Calvert Social Index
• Chief green officer
• Chief sustainability officer
• Conservation development
• Conservation economy
• Corporate social responsibility
• Deposit-refund system
• Ecopreneurship
• Ecosystem Marketplace
• Ecotourism
• Energy and the environment
• Envirofit International
• Environmental certification
• Environmental economics
• Environmental enterprise
• Environmental impacts of tourism in the Caribbean
• Environmental management system
• Environmental mitigation
• Environmental pricing reform
• Ethical job
• Fair trade
• Green Investment Group
• Green jobs
• Green-collar worker
• Greenwashing
• ISO 14031
• Impact investing
• Impacts of tourism
• Industrial ecology
• List of impact investing firms
• Malaysia LED Champions
• Overtourism
• Slow tourism
• Social finance
• Socially responsible investing
• Sustainability
• Sustainable finance
• Sustainable tourism
• The Lacassane Company
• Transport and the environment
• Urban nature
• Waste management
• Yamaltu/Deba

Management frameworks

• ADRI
• Adaptive management
• Application Lifecycle Framework
• BSC SWOT
• Business Model Canvas
• Customer relationship management
• Ecosystem-based management
• Enterprise Architecture Assessment Framework
• Environmental management system
• Hierarchical storage management
• Integrated Management Concept
• Lean project management
• Manufacturing bill of materials
• McKinsey 7S Framework
• Media engagement framework
• NATO Architecture Framework
• OGSM
• Object Oriented Management
• Objectives and key results
• Organization and Methods (management)
• Patent map
• Product lifecycle management
• Qualifications framework
• Results-based management
• Scaled agile framework
• Simple Network Management Protocol
• Team service management
• Technology–organization–environment framework
• Total cost management
• Treasury Enterprise Architecture Framework
• Zachman Framework

Sustainability and environmental management

• ALTIS – Postgraduate School Business & Society
• African Centre for Technology Studies
• Avoid-Shift-Improve
• Deepa Pullanikkatil
• Doreen Othero
• Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction
• Energi Mine
• Energy management
• Environmental engineering
• Environmental management system
• Environmental manager
• Environmental mitigation
• Environmental monitoring
• Environmental stewardship
• Healthy Land & Water
• Leticia E. Afuang
• Material flow management
• Smart Living Lab
• Sustainability and environmental management
• Sustainable forest management
• Waste management
• World Resources Forum

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_management_system

Also known as Environmental management information system, Environmental management software.