Measure of Economic Benefits of Environmental Management

Overall, mining projects make a significant contribution to gross of domestic product (GDP) in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Benefits include increased export revenues, provision of royalty and tax income to the government, technology transfer, worker training and the creation of a skilled workforce. This can also lead to improved social, physical, legal and financial infrastructure due to development around the mining areas such as roads, electricity and water distribution. Managed properly, economic benefits from mining projects can benefit future generations,even after operations have ceased. For Lao PDR, rapid expansion of the mining sector is seen as vital to economic development. In the National Socio-Economic Development Plan, mining was prioritized as a key sector to help Lao PDR achieve its goal to graduate from its status as least developed country by 2020. Government revenues from mining projects are a major contributor to the country’s National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy. Environmental management and monitoring of the operations of mining projects are essential in order to identify and mitigate potential negative environmental impacts. Such impacts may be minimized through the use of mining industry best practice as well as compliance with Government of Laos (GoL) and international environmental standards and regulations. The environmental management and monitoring process first identifies and quantifies potential impacts of a mine’s operation on land, water, atmospheric and biological resources, as well as on human settlements. Secondly,measures are proposed to avoid or mitigate identified adverse impacts, including a specific requirement for a mine closure and rehabilitation plan.

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Environmental crisis effect on environmental costs

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/937/2/022036 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 937 (2) ◽

pp. 022036

Author(s):

T Podolskaya ◽

G V Kravchenko ◽

Kh Shatila

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Decision Making ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Cost Accounting ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Environmental Cost ◽

Environmental Costs ◽

Financial Benefit ◽

Business Decision

Abstract Environmental management accounting is a mechanism for determining and evaluating, and incorporating these cost and benefit in the day-to-day business decision making, the full spectrum of environmental costs of current production processes and the economic benefits of contamination prevention, or cleaner processes. In practice, the past 10 years have acquired significance from corporate accounting, which is the most prominent part of cost accounting. Limits were widely acknowledged of conventional financial and cost accounting techniques reflecting companies’ sustainability efforts and providing management with necessary information for sustainable business choices. Information on companies’ environmental performance may be somewhat accessible, but both domestic decision makers and those at the level of public authorities are seldom able to connect environmental information with economic variables and are essentially deprived of environmental cost information. Decision makers do thus not recognize the economic worth of natural resources as asset and the commercial and financial benefit of excellent environmental performance. Beyond ‘goodwill’ efforts, there are a number of market-based incentives for integration with decision making of environmental issues. This article provides an outline of environmental management methods and we evaluate environmental costs in terms of current economic crisis.

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Sustainability Through Higher Education

Journal of Sustainability Perspectives ◽

10.14710/jsp.2021.12032 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

Author(s):

Daniela Carolina Herrera Gutierrez ◽

Karen Lorena Arias Devia ◽

Edna Vanessa Ramos Gomez

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Participatory Action ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Research Technology ◽

World University Rankings ◽

Responsible Consumption ◽

Development Goals ◽

The University

The Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD, through instruments, the experiences in environmental management and their participation in the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings were systematized. This article shows the implementation of sustainability within the institution, which was achieved through the Participatory Action methodology, which facilitates the integration of knowledge and actions to promote transformations in the thinking of the institutional community. In this way, they are articulated: objectives, strategy (ecological homes), research, technology and ICT as a method to establish relationships between the university, the State and the community. Additionally, the university defines projects and goals in the 2019-2023 development plan, which are articulated to comply with the Sustainable Development Goals, to train the community in values such as solidarity, assertive and true communication, collaboration effective, the attitudes to dialogue comprehensively, for the benefit of current and future generations. Therefore, only through interdisciplinary work, it is and will be possible to solve the problems that the world must face, seeking to curb hyperconsumption and social irresponsibility, which by seeking economic benefits for certain sectors puts the lives and survival of the species that inhabit the planet, including the human race itself at risk. According to this, the UNAD has the commitment from the environmental management to articulate efforts for the elaboration of proposals that allow the implementation of responsible consumption routes and collective action for the care of the environment

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FORESTRY EXTERNALITIES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

Problems of Management in the 21st Century ◽

10.33225/pmc/12.05.31 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 31-45

Author(s):

Miroslav Hájek ◽

Karel Pulkrab ◽

Jaroslava Hyršlová

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Decision Making ◽

Key Words ◽

Management Accounting ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Private Enterprises ◽

Accounting System ◽

Correct Information ◽

Environmental Management Accounting ◽

Industry Sectors

Environmental management accounting is an environmental voluntary instrument, which is aimed at environmental and economic benefits. It is possible to apply environmental management accounting in different industry sectors. In case of forestry a challenging idea is to take into account all forestry externalities. It is important to try to find a solution to comprehend all forestry outputs into a system of environmental management accounting because externalities are often excluded and result is that managers do not have correct information for their decision making. That is why it is important to know whether the accounting system includes externalities and how internalize all externalities. The problem is a methodology of assessing the externalities and willingness to allow externalities particularly in private enterprises. Assessment of externalities is not an invincible problem but a problem is to know what is their impact on enterprises and on society. A possibility to make a decision including externalities is what we want to solve. A lot of monetary and nonmonetary outputs exist in forestry. That is why we selected a forestry enterprise as an example. Key words: environmental management accounting, externalities, internalization of externalities, forestry outputs, forestry externalities.

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RANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PENGUKURAN GREEN PRODUCTIVITY DAN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING UNTUK PENGEMBANGAN USAHA KECIL MENENGAH

MATRIK (Jurnal Manajemen dan Teknik) ◽

10.30587/matrik.v13i1.400 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 24

Author(s):

Suhartini Suhartini

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Production Process ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Management Accounting ◽

Liquid Waste ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Negative Contribution ◽

Use Of Resources ◽

Green Productivity ◽

Environmental Management Accounting

Batik Kampoeng Jetis is one of the centers batik who have the potential pollution of waste that is high enough so needed an improvement in production process and the management of liquid wastes and solid wastes from the production process. It says quite high because the volume of liquid waste produced by ± 568 m³ per day to produce pieces of batik ± 1400 per day. Batik Kampoeng Jetis also expect the economic benefits of increased productivity resulting from efficient use of resources in order to improve management of the environment. There are two interests, economic interests and the interests of environmental protection. Green Productivity and Environmental Management Accounting are used to accommodate these two interests. Green Productivity is a strategy to increase company productivity and environmental performance simultaneously in the overall social economic development (APO, 2003). Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is for exploring the costs rather than regard it as an overhead cost. Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) to calculate how much the costenvironment and create an alternative that can provide benefits. The results of this study is to design measurement procedures standardized assessment of Batik Green Productivity for UKM that can ensure sustainability in both the financial and environmental aspects so that they can still survive without ignoring their negative contribution to the environment. Handling of liquid waste that is applied can provide improvements of productivity and environmental performance, although the increase is achieved only 1.3%. But this provides evidence that by implementing Green Productivity and Environmental Management Accounting will be able to increase the productivity and environmental performance.While the profit potential of products that can be achieved by using the Environmental Management Accounting is estimated at 4.4% or Rp.2.194.936.000, - per year.

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Geoheritage as a Tool for Environmental Management: A Case Study in Northern Malta (Central Mediterranean Sea)

Resources ◽

10.3390/resources8040168 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 168 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Lidia Selmi ◽

Paola Coratza ◽

Ritienne Gauci ◽

Mauro Soldati

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Central Mediterranean ◽

Useful Knowledge ◽

Geological Processes ◽

Central Mediterranean Sea ◽

Use Values ◽

Definition Of ◽

Scientific Value

The recognition, selection and quantitative assessment of sites of geological and geomorphological interest are fundamental steps in any environmental management focused on geoconservation and geotourism promotion. The island of Malta, in the central Mediterranean Sea, despite having a steadily increasing growth in population and tourism, still conserves geological and geomorphological features of great relevance and interest, both for their contribution to the understanding of the geological processes acting through time on landscape and for their aesthetic importance. The present work proposes an inventory for northern Malta, through three main stages, with the outcome of a final list of geosites that have the potential to be recognized as both natural heritage and tourist resources with potential economic benefits. In particular, the assessment methodology applied combines scientific value and additional and use-values, showing the links existing between geoheritage and other aspects of nature and culture of the sites. The results provide useful knowledge for the definition of strategies aimed at the development of a sustainable and responsible tourism.

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Instagrammable tourism: local government policies in sustainable environmental management

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/905/1/012110 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 905 (1) ◽

pp. 012110

Author(s):

P Utari ◽

E Widiyanti ◽

M Cahyadin

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Local Government ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Destination Image ◽

Government Policies ◽

Tourist Attractions ◽

Tourist Destinations ◽

Management Concept ◽

The Aesthetic

Abstract Tourism development using social media or policy-makers favor Instagrammable Tourism due to its assumed effects on destination image, social and infrastructure developments, and economic benefits. However, the dynamics of making a tourism destination instagrammable sometimes bring up conditions that ignore the aspects of sustainable environmental management. Tourism business actors who process natural lands into artificial instagrammable tourist attractions and consumer behavior that damages the aesthetic value of tourist destinations are few operational examples of outcomes caused by local policies related to instagrammable tourism. This paper aims to present the description and implementation of local government policies in instagrammable tourism management from two different areas of Kaliurang in Sleman regency and Tawangmangu in Karanganyar Regency. Data in local tourism development policy, spatial plans, and land use in tourist destinations were analyzed using descriptive qualitative, descriptive statistics, and policy analysis methods. The analysis results show that the two tourist areas have been regulated and managed based on local regulations. The local regulation interpretations can be seen in the different directions of the two tourism area developments. The different emphasis on the orientations of tourism area managements bear implications on implementing a sustainable environmental management concept.

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