ENVIRONMENTAL COST MANAGEMENT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTING PRACTICES INEUROPE: A HARBINGER OFFUTURE U.S. BEST PRACTICES? -- ABSTRACT -- ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE -- Context -- Research Objectives and Goals -- APPROACH -- Principles and General Methods -- Tasks -- RESEARCH FINDINGS -- Legal and Cultural Environment -- European Cultural Context -- European Law and Regulation Addressing ESG Investing -- EU Policies and Initiatives -- EU Directives -- Voluntary Standards and Codes of Conduct -- Country-Level Legal Requirements and Trends -- The United Kingdom -- Fiduciary Duties and Voluntary Norms -- Freshfields and Fiduciary Duty -- Fiduciary Duty Update -- Business Review -- France -- FRR Pension Scheme -- Insurance -- Mutual Funds -- SRI/ESG Trends -- Germany -- Summary and Parallels to/Differences from U.S. Capital Markets -- Nature and Scale of European Capital Markets -- ESG Investing in the European Capital Markets -- ESG Investing in Europe-Issues and Methods -- General Investor Attitudes and Trends -- Investment Industry Initiatives -- Enhanced Analytics Initiative -- Principles for Responsible Investment -- Studies of European ESG Investing -- Institutional/Corporate Investor Activity-Industry Posture and Trends -- Pension Funds -- Investment/Fund Managers -- Individual Corporate Investor Activity -- Summary and Trends -- Major ESG Information Providers and their Products and Services -- Vendor Types -- Examples: Vendor Profiles -- Summary -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- Conclusions -- Summary and Implications -- REFERENCES -- Additional Information Resources -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM -- 2.1. Origin and Evolution of the EMS -- 2.2. The ISO 9001 and the ISO 14001 Standards.

2.3. Definition of the Environmental Management System. -- 2.4. The ISO 14001 Standard and the EMAS Regulation -- 2.5. Steps in Order to Implement an EMS -- Environmental Aspects -- Legal and other Requirements -- Environmental Objectives, Targets and Programs -- Resources, Roles, Responsibility and Authority -- Competence, Training and Awareness -- Communication -- Documentation -- Control of Documents -- Operational Control -- Emergency Preparedness and Response -- Monitoring and Measurement -- Evaluation of Compliance -- Non-Conformity, Corrective action and Preventive Action -- Control of Records -- Internal Audit -- 3. THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTALADVANTAGES DERIVED FROM THE EMS -- 4. THE COSTS AND DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EMS -- 5. PROBLEMS TO VALUE ECONOMIC COSTS ANDECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ANNEX I. -- 7. REFERENCES -- ENERGY USE, ENVIRONMENTAND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PEOPLE, POWER AND POLLUTION -- 2.1. Energy and Population Growth -- 2.2. Energy and Environmental Problems -- 2.3. Environmental Transformations -- 3. SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPT -- 3.1. Environmental Aspects -- 3.2. Wastes -- 4. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY ASPECTSOF COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY -- 4.1. Sulphur in Fuels and its Environmental Consequences -- 4.2. Control of SO2 Emissions -- 4.3. The Control of NOx Release by Combustion Processes -- 5. GREEN HEAT -- 6. EFFECTS OF URBAN DENSITY -- 6.1. Energy Efficiency and Architectural Expression -- 6.2. Energy Efficiency -- 6.3. Policy Recommendations for a Sustainable Energy Future -- 7. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- A GAME-THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTALBEHAVIOUR AT THE CORPORATEAND GLOBAL LEVEL -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GAME THEORY AND CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- 2.1. Literature Review -- 2.1.1. "Green" Behaviour and Product Differentiation.

2.1.2. Other Corporate Environmental Incentives -- 2.2. Game-theoretic Models of Corporate Sector's Environmental Behaviour -- 2.2.1. Our Benchmark Monopoly Model -- 2.2.1.1. Optimal Price -- 2.2.1.2. Optimal Emissions Level -- 2.2.1.3. Sensitivity Analysis -- 2.2.2. A Duopoly Model32 -- 2.2.3. Higher Level Competition33 -- Under Bertrand Competition -- Under Cournot Competition -- Comparison of Bertrand and Cournot -- 2.2.4. Summary -- 3. GAME THEORY AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- 3.1. Non-cooperative Game Theoretic Approach -- 3.2. Behavioural Game-theoretic Approaches to Global EnvironmentalGames -- 4. THE MODEL -- 4.1. Governmental Abatement Efforts (Date 2) -- 4.2. Governmental Cooperation/defection Decision (Date 1) -- 5. CONCLUSION, POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: CHALLENGES OFIMPLEMENTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ENERGY SITUATION -- 3. MAJOR ENERGY CONSUMING SECTORS -- 3.1. Agriculture Sector -- 3.2. Industrial Sector -- 3.3. Domestic Use -- 3.4. Transport Sector -- 3.5. Energy Sector -- 3.6. Household Sector -- 4. HYDROPOWER -- 5. SOLAR ENERGY -- 6. WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL -- 7. BIOGAS -- 8. SUGAR CANE BIOMASS -- 9. GEOTHERMAL ENERGY -- 10. ACHIEVEMENTS -- 11. PRIVATISATION AND PRICE LIBERALISATIONIN ENERGY SOURCE SUPPLIES -- 12. ENVIRONMENT ASPECTS -- 13. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVES -- 14. PETROLEUM INDUSTRY POLLUTION ANDGREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS IN SUDAN -- 15. CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING ANDTHE ENHANCED GREENHOUSE EFFECT -- 16. MITIGATION MEASURES -- 17. POLICY DEVELOPMENT -- 18. THE FUTURE -- 19. RECOMMENDATIONS -- 20. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- MARKET VALUATION OF THE LONG-RUN EFFECTSOF ADOPTION OF EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTALCOST STRATEGIES -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT.

III. METHODOLOGY -- Sample Selection -- External Recognition Indicators -- Monitoring and Public Reporting Indicators -- Value Indicators -- Research Model -- IV. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS -- V. SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- BIOPHYSICAL TERRAIN ANALYSIS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION -- LANDCOVER MODELLING -- TERRAIN SEGMENTATION FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL LST DATA -- SEA SEGMENTATION FROM MULTI-TEMPORAL SST DATA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ORGANIZING EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE DELIVERYWHERE RESOURCES ARE LIMITED:SPECIAL FOCUS ON DIABETES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS (EXPERIENCES) -- RESULTS -- Diabetic Associations and Role -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCE -- QUANTIFYING THE ENVIRONMENTALPERFORMANCE BY EXERGY-BASED INDICATORS -- ABSTRACT -- ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS -- EXERGY CONCEPT FOR PERFORMANCE INDICATORS -- DEVELOPMENT OF EXERGY-BASED INDICATORS -- Cumulative Exergy Consumption (CExC) -- Thermo-Ecological Cost (TEC) -- Extended Exergy Accounting (EEA) -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.