Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Implementation, maintenance and integration -- 1. Deployment and operation of a business-wide ems -- 2. Maintaining the momentum: EMS after the certifier has left -- 3. Success and failures: National guidance on ISO 14001 for New Zealand local authorities -- 4. Environmental initiatives to improve the quality of the local environment -- Part 2: Certification and registration experiences -- 5. Joint ems and group certification: A cost-effective route for SMEs to achieve ISO 14001* -- 6. Financial services and iso 14001: The challenge of determining indirect environmental aspects in a global certification -- 7. Registration to iso 14001: The view of assessors -- Part 3: Use of information technology, Iso 14031 and other tools and methods -- 8. Using information technology to automate integrated compliance management -- 9. Iso 14031 used as a tool in Iso 14001 or as an alternative for a simple ems -- 10. Integration of business strategy in establishing significant environmental aspects* -- 11. Setting up effective environmental management systems based on the concept of cleaner production: Cases from small and medium-sized enterprises -- 12. Performance-based Iso 14001 case studies from Taiwan -- Part 4: communication, training, empowerment and cultural issues -- 3. Iso 14001 as an opportunity for engaging sme's in poland's environmental reforms -- 14. Implementation of emss in seasonal hotels: Assuring stability -- 15. Iso 14001 and the american indian reservation -- Part 5: Involving stakeholders: contractors, suppliers,customers and other stakeholders -- 16. Anticipating greener supply chain demands: One Singapore company's journey to ISO 14001* -- 17. Integrating quality, environment, health and safety systems with customers and contractors.

18. Environmental management systems and stakeholders: The case of the Belgian electricity sector* -- 19. Unco-operative stakeholders: ISO 14001 as a means to co-ordinate efforts -- Part 6: Incorporating products, design and technology -- 20. Technical and design tools: The Integration of ISO 14001, life-cycle development, environmental design and cost accounting* -- 22. Iso 14001 and the adoption of new technology: Evidence from Western Australian companies -- Part 7: Environmental and economic benefits -- 23. Iso 14001 and environmental performance: The management goal link* -- 24. Assessment of the value of Iso 14001 in improving environmental performance -- 25. Real financial benefits from Iso 14001? Potential for economic value added through ISO 14001 at Unique Images Ltd -- 26. Drivers and advantages of implementing emss: Brazilian cases -- Part 8: Sustainability and iso 14001 -- 27. Iso 14001: A tool for municipal government to achieve sustainability: The experiences of Hamilton-Wentworth, Canada -- 28. Proyecto guadalajara: Promoting sustainable development through the adoption of ISO 14001 by small and medium-sized enterprises -- 29. Enhancement of iso 14001 and the integration of sustainability into the footwear supply chain at nike inc. -- 30. Designing a sustainability management system using the natural step framework* -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Biographies -- Web resources.