Management Stratergies

• development project examples:

  • soil remediation and erosion activities (dryland salinity)
  • water conservation and water engineering activities (sewage treatment)
  • transport engineering activities (roads, freeways)
• environmental managment system = a frameworks or set of processes and practices that an organisation uses to achieve its environmental goals, reduce it environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency
• goals of an environmental managemnt system are:

  • identification of environmental and safety risks
  • reduction of risks
  • ,onitoring and regular reviews of risks
• when consistent with an organisation's environmental policy, the outcomes of an EMS include:

  • clear corporate environmental policy
  • compliance with all legal requirements
  • continual environmental improvement
  • training for all employees on awareness
• a sustainable development should include an ongoing auditing process which leads to continual improvements in environmental management
• the process of an environmental magament system

  • planning
  • organising
  • implementing
  • controlling
• planning an EMS

  • setting up policies and procedures
  • detailing the planning process
  • ensuring regulatory tracking
  • indentfying influence on regulatory departments
• organising an EMS

  • management organisation
  • reporting level and line responsibility
• implementing an EMS

  • compliance management
  • risk assessment and risk managment
  • issue-specific environmental program
  • project environmental review
• contorlling an EMS

  • management information systems
  • environmental auditingand assurance
  • monitoring programs
• EMS ensures that there is a process in place that will increase an organisation's environmental awareness
• main benefit of an EMS for the environment and wider community us the reduction of enviornmental damge caused by a development project
• process required to develop an EMS also provides other benefits

  • costing savings
  • stakeholder engagement and community confidence
  • improved relationships with regulators
• circular economy is one which continually seeks to reduce the environmental impacts of production and consumption and gain more productive uses of natural resources
• circular economy is achieved by

  • resource use is monitored (products repaired, reused or recycled)
  • buisness models (plan for maintainence, repair and desposal)
  • innovation (increase resource productivity)
• a linear economy is when raw material is collected and transformed into goods, after whihc waste products are discarded
• in a qualitative risk analysis, individual risks are categorised on a scale (subjective)
• in a quanitative risk analysis, individual risks are each assigned a numerical value]
• a cost-benefit analysis is a technique companies use to determine if an idea or product is worth the investment required to create the product
• sustainability priciples outline how benefits and costs can be weighed up to ensure a development is sustainable
• a life cycle analysis aimas to quantify all environmental impacts over the entire life span of a product or service
• steps in a life cycle analysis

  • goal definition (clarify purpose for analysis)
  • inventory ( identify stages of analysis, inputs and outputs to the enviro)
  • impact assesment (environmental profile of the project)
  • improvement (look for alternative stratergies where required)