scholarly journals ISO 14000 and Its Perceived Impact on Corporate Performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maruf Hasan ◽  
Chun Kit Chan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Excellent Performance ◽  
Environmental Standard ◽  
Iso 14000 ◽  
System Maintenance ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Benefits And Costs

ISO14000 is an international environmental standard that acts as a guideline for companies to improve its performance in environmental aspects. Researches related to ISO14000 shows that the implementation has not only improved companies’ environmental performance, but this has also enhanced companies’ corporate performance. In this research, a project is carried out to determine the benefits and costs of ISO14000, which necessitates the inspections of companies’ performance in corporate and environmental aspects. A questionnaire survey was carried out to achieve this and s the results from the survey shows that ISO14000 had an excellent performance in environmental aspects such as reducing waste and usage of materials and energy. In the business aspects, however, the performances were average due to high time expense for this system maintenance and cost of certification and surveillance.

scholarly journals Investigatinon of Green Hospital Standards in Jiroft Hospitals

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najme Mashayekhi Mazar ◽  
Mohammad Hassan Ehrampoush ◽  
Ali Asghar Ebrahimi ◽  
Mohammad Taghi Ghaneian ◽  
Maryam Dolatabadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
International Standard Organization ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Iso 14000 ◽  
Standard Organization ◽  
Environmental Performance Evaluation

Introduction: The International Standard Organization created a set of specified standards titled ISO 14000 in 1996 which includes numerous advisory documents related to the environment management, environment supervision, environmental performance evaluation, ecologic labeling, life cycle evaluation and environmental aspects. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical cross sectional study. The population being studied includes the managers and the staff of Jiroft hospitals. The required data are collected using standard questionnaires of environmental management system from 118 managers and staff in various sections of Jiroft hospitals. Results: The results of the study show that the laboratory, laundry and kitchen condition, water management, contaminants management and spreading to the air, as well as environmental strategies in attaining green hospital standards in Jiroft hospitals, in accordance with ISO 14000, are suitable and at the optimum level. Conclusion: Hospital and health systems can improve their economic and moral situations in the society by helping to attain the goals of the millennium development in the field of health and stability as well as green economic.

ISO 14000: Assessing Its Perceived Impact on Corporate Performance

2000 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Montabon ◽  
Steven A. Melnyk ◽  
Robert Sroufe ◽  
Roger J Calantone
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Performance ◽  
Iso 14000 ◽  
Perceived Impact

Health and Physical Activity in Urban Neighbourhoods. Case Study: Shah Alam City, Selangor, Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Oliver Hoon Leh Ling ◽  
Siti Nur Afiqah Mohamed Musthafa ◽  
Muhammad Solahuddin Hamzah ◽  
Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi ◽  
Nurul Ashikin Mabahwi
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Neighbourhood Environment ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods

Environmental health is referring to the health of people in relation to environmental quality. Due to rapid urbanisation, more people are living in urban neighbourhoods. Urban planning and design aspects including the neighbourhood environment are potentially affecting the human healthy lifestyle and health condition. Thus, the relationship between Malaysian neighbourhood environmental aspects and human health has become the concern of this research. One of the neighbourhood units in Shah Alam city had been chosen as the study area for this purpose. Questionnaire survey had been carried out to examine the health condition and physical activeness of residents. Besides, the perception of residents on the quality of neighbourhood environmental aspects also had been collected in the questionnaire survey. The health condition of residents was measured by non-communicable diseases (NCD) and the physical activeness was measured in duration as well as the frequency of physical exercise activities. The study found that the quality of neighbourhood environmental aspects significantly increased the physical activeness of respondents. The physical activeness was positively associated with human health as measured in NCD (heart diseases and high blood pressure, HBP). It shows that neighbourhood environmental (physical and social) aspects are potentially affecting the healthy life of people living in the neighbourhood.Keywords: Healthy life, Neighbourhood environment, Non-communicable diseases (NCD), Physical activeness, Quality.

scholarly journals Framing Electric Mobility for Urban Sustainability in a Circular Economy Context: An Overview of the Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7786
Author(s):  
Walter Leal Filho ◽  
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar ◽  
Richard Kotter ◽  
Thomas Skou Grindsted ◽  
Abdul-Lateef Balogun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Urban Quality Of Life ◽  
Electro Mobility

The development of electro-mobility is one of the centerpieces of European country attempts to reduce carbon emissions and increase the quality of life in cities. The goals of reducing emissions from the transport sector and phasing out fossil-fueled vehicles in (urban) transport by 2050 present unrivaled opportunities to foster electro-mobility. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature and provides a detailed analysis of the current development of electro-mobility in Europe, assessing social, economic, and environmental aspects under a circular economy (CE) context. It also examines the existing challenges and suggests ways of addressing them towards improving the environmental performance of electro-mobility and the urban quality of life. The paper argues that a narrow technology-only agenda in electro-mobility will be less successful without the imperative of the CE, including not just materials and resources but also energy, to unlock the medium-term co-benefits of de-carbonization of both the transport as well as the building and energy sectors. The paper critically reviews some of the anticipated future developments that may guide the growth of this rapidly growing field into a CE.

scholarly journals A contribution of the Cleaner Production Program to the ISO 14001 Management System: a case study in the metal-mechanic sector

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Magnani Cervelini ◽  
Maria Tereza Saraiva Souza
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Management System ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Cleaner Production ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Production Program ◽  
System A ◽  
Iso 14000

The aim of this work is to identify the contributions of the Cleaner Production Program to the Environmental Management System certified to ISO 14000. The results of the research indicate that the procedure standardization demanded by normalization leads the company to adopt environmentally adequate procedures; besides, the implementation of the Cleaner Production Program acts as a complementary tool in the EMS, with a view to improving environmental performance.

scholarly journals Comparison of the Economic and Environmental Performance of V2H and Residential Stationary Battery: Development of a Multi-Objective Optimization Method for Homes of EV Owners

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Ryosuke Kataoka ◽  
Akira Shichi ◽  
Hiroyuki Yamada ◽  
Yumiko Iwafune ◽  
Kazuhiko Ogimoto
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Multi Objective Optimization ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Investment Cost ◽  
Detached House

The use of batteries of electric vehicles (EVs) for home electricity applications using a bidirectional charger, a process called vehicle-to-home (V2H), is attracting the attention of EV owners as a valuable additional benefit of EVs. To motivate owners to invest in V2H, a quantitative evaluation to compare the performance of EV batteries with that of residential stationary batteries (SBs) is required. In this study, we developed a multi-objective optimization method for the household of EV owners using energy costs including investment and CO2 emissions as indices and compared the performances of V2H and SB. As a case study, a typical detached house in Japan was assumed, and we evaluated the economic and environmental aspects of solar power self-consumption using V2H or SB. The results showed that non-commuting EV owners should invest in V2H if the investment cost of a bidirectional charger is one third of the current cost as compared with inexpensive SB, in 2030. In contrast, our results showed that there were no advantages for commuting EV owners. The results of this study contribute to the rational setting of investment costs to increase the use of V2H by EV owners.

scholarly journals Global benchmarking for monitoring environmental, economic, and social performance for metallurgical production enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 02004
Author(s):  
Valentyna Lavrenenko ◽  
Hanna Yanhol ◽  
Bohdan Tishkov
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Resource Saving

The development of the ideology of sustainable development stimulated the emergence of companies’ Performance Management Systems with an emphasis on the environmental aspects of their activities. Benchmarking, as a modern management tool, is often used for competitive analysis and setting development goals. This study’s scientific problem is to assess the feasibility of applying benchmarking studies to assess the global industry’s environmental aspects. The purpose of the study is to identify the prerequisites for using benchmarking to improve environmental performance, as well as to identify best practices among world-leading companies. For benchmarking, a logical information model is proposed in the study. On its basis, eight world leaders were selected, trends in the industry’s development were analysed, and reference values of environmental indicators were established. For environmental performance assessment, it is proposed to use such indicators as greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, material efficiency, environmental management systems. Comparative benchmarking analysis of world leaders and 16 largest Ukrainian companies allowed determining the reserves for increasing environmental performance. The directions for increasing environmental performance are Investment in resource-saving technologies, production of higher value-added products, investments in energy-saving and new technologies, improvement of management systems, and certification. These ideas are complemented by recommendations for improving environmental performance, based on the Circular Economy Concept’s philosophy and Industry 4.0. The study’s practical significance is that Ukrainian companies can use their results to achieve higher environmental and economic outcomes.

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN RAIL OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE: CURRENT PRACTICE AND POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS

2005 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 433-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTINA LUNDBERG ◽  
BERIT BALFORS ◽  
LENNART FOLKESON
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Management Systems ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Common System ◽  
Environmental Performance Evaluation

Environmental management systems (EMS) require performance evaluation of significant environmental aspects. Much has been published on how to achieve environmental performance evaluation but little information is available on applications in practice. The Swedish National Rail Administration, Banverket, initiated the implementation of EMS in 1998, at about the same time as many other rail administrations. In this paper an overview of the application of EMS at rail administrations in selected countries is presented and systems for environmental performance evaluation within the EMS used by Banverket are analysed. The use of EMS by rail administrations was found to vary from the absence of environmental management to fully implemented EMS, mainly ISO 14001. At Banverket, EMS is widely used but the environmental performance evaluation could be improved by introducing indicators and merging all types of environmental monitoring, currently reported separately, into a common system.

scholarly journals Using a Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure Environmental Performance: A Proposed Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inaam M. Al-Zwyalif
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Process Learning ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
And Control

Environmental aspects have been recognized by today’s organizations as the most important components of value creation that would contribute to the achievement of the goals and success in the future. The purpose of this study is to propose an Environmental Balanced Scorecard (EBSC) model to evaluate environmental performance in business organizations. It also aims to illustrate how the environmental performance aspects can integrate into the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). To achieve the goals of the study, the descriptive analytical approach was adopted for its suitability for the purpose of the study. An EBSC model was developed to evaluate environmental performance with proposed four perspectives and environmental strategic objectives within each perspective. The four perspectives are the customer, internal process, learning and growth and financial. The proposed model will help managers not only to evaluate the environmental performance, but also to plan, manage and control organization’s environmental activities. In addition, it can serve as a template for the organizations which aims to create environmental awareness and pursue environmental sustainability.

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