Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- PREFACE -- SUMMARY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- Background and Context -- Conceptual Introduction -- Evolution of Environmental Policy and Environmental Management -- Project Design, Procedures and Development -- Success Stories -- Amecke Fruchtsaft: Economical Pathway into an Ecological Optimum of Returnable-Bottle Systems -- Diessner Farben und Lacke GmbH und Co. KG: Recycling Paint Sludge and Reducing Pollutants -- ABC-Coating: Developing and Diffusing Water-Borne Coating Systems -- Glasuld: Resource Management and Eco-Auditing in Glass-Wool Production -- Eco-Balance Sheet and Implementation of Eco-Controlling in the KUNERT Group -- Hertie and The BUND: The History of an Uncommon Cooperation -- The Environmental Factor in the Designing of Passenger Cars by NedCar -- The Internalisation of Environmental Management at GE Plastics Europe -- Environmental Management at the Ciba Corporation -- Comparative Evaluation -- Typical and Varying Actors and Structures -- Comparison with Other Case Studies of Environmental Management -- Determinants and Dynamics of Successful Environmental Management -- Perspectives for Environmental Management -- Any Generalizable Pattern of Successful Environmental Management? -- Significance of, and Implications and Recommendations for Environmental Policy -- INDEX.