Managing Environment

Named Best Book in Environmental Management, 1999
American Society for Public Administration

Leaking landfills, oil contamination, illegal waste disposal, and pervasive air pollution . . . Today's managers and policy makers face a multitude of environmental challenges, choices, and opportunities. Some work in the public or private sectors. Some are regulators or regulated. Whether they are environmental specialists or not, managers must understand scientifically complex environmental mandates and shifting ambiguities in order to address them proactively. They must not only cultivate organizational awareness of environmental values, but also remain committed to engaging in these values.

The authors of Managing for the Environment draw from their extensive managing, consulting, and research experiences to give managers, elected officials, students, and concerned citizens the tools they need to address environmental issues effectively.

Authoritative, insightful, and the first of its kind to take a strategic management view, this book:

• Describes current issues and trends in environmental affairs, including sustainable development, risk-based priority setting, managing for results, market incentives, and environmental justice
• Explains what readers should know about environmental laws and their implementation
• Shows how managers can incorporate environmental management concepts into their organizations' thinking by linking strategies, structures, and informational systems
• Offers strategies for overcoming the political, economic, and organizationalobstacles to doing so
• Provides methods for understanding, defining, and communicating environmental risks and responses to employees, the media, and communities
• Presents constructive conflict resolution strategies for handling difficult environmental disputes

Named Best Book in Public and Nonprofit Management, 1999-2000
Academy of Management

Named Best Book in Environmental Management, 1999
American Society for Public Administration

Leaking landfills, oil contamination, illegal waste disposal, and pervasive air pollution . . . Today's managers and policy makers face a multitude of environmental challenges, choices, and opportunities. Some work in the public or private sectors. Some are regulators or regulated. Whether they are environmental specialists or not, managers must understand scientifically complex environmental mandates and shifting ambiguities in order to address them proactively. They must not only cultivate organizational awareness of environmental values, but also remain committed to engaging in these values.

The authors of Managing for the Environment draw from their extensive managing, consulting, and research experiences to give managers, elected officials, students, and concerned citizens the tools they need to address environmental issues effectively.

Authoritative, insightful, and the first of its kind to take a strategic management view, this book:
* Describes current issues and trends in environmental affairs, including sustainable development, risk-based priority setting, managing for results, market incentives, and environmental justice
* Explains what readers should know about environmental laws and their implementation
* Shows how managers can incorporate environmental management concepts into their organizations' thinking by linking strategies, structures, and informational systems
* Offers strategies for overcoming the political,economic, and organizational obstacles to doing so
* Provides methods for understanding, defining, and communicating environmental risks and responses to employees, the media, and communities
* Presents constructive conflict resolution strategies for handling difficult environmental disputes

Natural Resources & Environmental Administration - Edward P. Weber

O'Leary et al. have produced one of those 'must-have-it-on-my-shelf' books...[Managing for the Environment]creates a single comprehensive and readily understandable source of environmental management information for managers who are not specialists in the field, and [provides] environmental management specialists with a reasonably coherent, integrated, and multidisciplinary set of environmental principles, practices, and priorities. It offers a breadth and depth rarely found in a single volume [and] fills a serious void in the environmental management literature. It should become a mainstay in upper-division and graduate-level courses in environmental/natural resources policy and administration in short order. In fact, the value of this book is such that it should become required reading for more general, core management courses in both Masters of Public Administration and Masters in Business Administration programs.

ROSEMARY O'LEARY is a noted consultant and professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. ROBERT F. DURANT is professor of public administration and public policy in the Department of Political Science and the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. DANIEL J. FIORINO has written extensively on various environmental issues and strategies. He has over twenty years of experience in national environmental policy making. PAUL S. WEILAND, who is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, has a Ph.D. in public policy from Indiana University.