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What Is
Environmental
Management?
• Environment management puts in place strategies to conserve energy,
water and resources and to reduce negative impacts on the environment by
industrial activities. Read on for a description of environmental
management duties and information on how to become an environmental
manager.
• Environmental management is an interdisciplinary field that interacts with
business, science and law. This field involves understanding how business
strategies must change in the face of environmental constraints, the
principles of sustainable development and the growth and endorsement by
the public of green services and products. Environmental managers work
with a wide range of issues, including pollution prevention, waste
materials management, global warming, loss of biodiversity, land
degradation and the management of water and land resources.
Other areas of concern where environmental
management may operate include:
• Auditing of commercial and industrial facilities for compliance with
environmental regulations
• Managing issues involving the environment in a changing world (climate,
water and energy change)
• Developing strategies for waste reduction
• Overseeing opposing regulatory, legal, economical and technical concerns
• Monitoring water and air pollution and disposal of hazardous waste for
compliance with federal and state regulations
Environmental Management Systems
• Environmental Management System - EMS - is a system of business

management that aids organizations in developing plans to include
environmental considerations into their operations. If effective, it should
decrease an organization's negative effects on the environment and help
the organization operate more efficiently. It is an ongoing, cyclical process
whereby an organization plans, implements, reviews and improves actions
and processes in order to meet its goals, both environmental and business.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has information available on
its website for companies interested in implementing an EMS.
How to Enter This Career
• Professional environmental managers may work in fields like consulting,

policy analysis, environmental planning and environmental education.
Individuals with a relevant bachelor's degree, like conservation science,
who hold an environmentally oriented job may eventually become
managers with several years of experience.
• Degree programs in environmental management are also available. They're
typically offered at the master's degree level and are designed for
professionals already working in an environmental field. Bachelor's degree
programs that can prepare students for entry-level careers and doctoral
degree programs that focus on producing environmental scholars and
research professionals are also available. Coursework in environmental
management programs often covers environmental laws and policies, the
environment and society, environmental economics, corporate
responsibility, environmental science statistics and project management.
7 Principles of Environmental Management
• Because of the need for the protection of our environment, the

Principles of Environmental Management was created by the United
Nations.
• The principles of environmental management was just created to protect
the environment but also to achieve sustained economic growth and
development.
What are Principles of Environmental Management?
• Principles of Environmental Management is defined as the guideline of

procedures every citizen including companies, organization, industries and the
government have to follow with the primary aim of protecting the environment.
• The principles of environmental management have been the major actor in the
push for sustainable development.
• These principles permeate into the different facets of life including agriculture,
mining, construction and civil works, oil and gas, etc affecting every citizen
including big organisations and the government.
Advantages of environmental principles
• The Environmental principles help in the protection of our environment.

• Environmental principles help in the interpretation of policies providing a basis to scrutinize
and challenge government actions and guide local authority decision-making.
• Environmental Principle provides valuable information to meet community needs and for the
setting of environmental goals.
• Principles of environmental management lay a suitable platform for sustainable development.
• Principles of environmental management are a set of rules and guidelines that are helpful in
the making of environmentally sustainable decisions. They provide guidelines for decision-
makers to give laws that protect the environment.
• Principles of environmental management help in the achievement of
sustained economic growth and development.
• Application of the principles of environmental management would ensure
a significant reduction in environmental accidents and an improved
company reputation.
• The principles of environmental management increase the knowledge of
the citizens as they are involved in decision-making as regards the
environment.
Seven (7) Principles of Environmental Management
• Polluter Pay Principle

• User Pay Principle
• The Precautionary Principle
• The Principle of Responsibility
• The Principle of Proportionality
• The Principle of Participation
• The Principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency
1. Polluter Pays Principle (PPP)
• This is the principle that tries to reduce or mitigate the pollution of the
environment by putting a cost on pollution. In this principle, the polluter
pays some fine to bear the cost of polluting the environment through the
different ways possible.
• This fine is not just compensation but an amount that can be used to
remedy the damage caused by the polluter to some extent.
User Pays Principle (UPP)
• This principle was drafted from the Polluter Pays Principle. The principle
states that “All resource users should pay for the full long-run marginal
cost of the use of a resource and related services, including any associated
treatment costs.”
• As one of the principles of environmental management, this principle sets
a cost for users of natural resources to pay for marginal environmental
damages or pollution which comes as a result of harvesting, using, or
utilizing certain natural resources, services, and treatment services.
The Precautionary Principle (PP)
• This principle places precautionary measures for uncertainties involving a

substance or an activity that could pose a threat to the environment to
prevent that substance or activity from adversely impacting the
environment.
• The best precautionary measure is to eliminate the hazard of substance
which could happen to the environment by destroying it or so the activity.
Other ways could include substituting that substance for an
environmentally friendly substance.
The Principle of Responsibility
• One of the principles of environmental management, the principle of

responsibility takes to concern with the responsibility of every person, business,
company, industry, state, and even country to maintain the ecological processes
that occur in the environment.
• Having access to environmental resources brings a responsibility to use these
resources for sustainable ecological development, economic efficiency, socially
fair manner.
• In this principle, every person, firm, company, etc are held accountable for
ensuring and maintaining a safe, clean, and sustainable development.
The Principle of Proportionality
• One of the principles of environmental management, the principle of proportionality

refers to the concept of balance. It involves striking a balance between economic
development on one hand and the protection of the environment on the other hand.
• As we strive for economic growth and development a balance between development
and environmental protection must be a stroke. When we protect our environment, it
sustains economic development.
• It cannot be argued that economic development is accompanied by some adverse
effects on the environment. The construction of some needed infrastructure as a result
of economic development has been considered a major part of human development
The Principle of Participation
• One of the principles of environmental manner, the principle of Participation

takes to account that every person is to participate in making decisions that
improve the environment and activities the protect the environment. Every
person, firm, and government is to participate in creating policies that
improve the environment.
• Through this connective collaboration by the government, firms, and
companies, and every citizen from different works of life in the affairs of the
environment, it is easy to bring up decisions through brainstorming on the
need to protect the environment.
. The Principle Of Effectiveness and
Efficiency
• The principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency takes to account that the government
of every country, city, or state has a responsibility to ensure well-structured
policies and procedures in putting in place sustainable water management.
• As one of the principles of environmental management, the Principle of
Effectiveness and Efficiency takes to account that resources be used efficiently by
the user of policy instruments that create an incentive to minimise wasteful use of
these resources.
• It also seeks to minimise environmental costs by creating and implementing laws,
processes, and procedures to tackle issues in environmental governance.

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What Is

• Environmental Management System - EMS - is a system of business

• Professional environmental managers may work in fields like consulting,

• Because of the need for the protection of our environment, the

• Principles of Environmental Management is defined as the guideline of

• The Environmental principles help in the protection of our environment.

• Polluter Pay Principle

• This principle places precautionary measures for uncertainties involving a

• One of the principles of environmental management, the principle of

• One of the principles of environmental management, the principle of proportionality

• One of the principles of environmental manner, the principle of Participation

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