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 A practical environmental management guide that meets ISO requirements

Local and international developments in environmental law progressively influence business decisions. Edition 4 of Road Map to Environmental Legislation is an indispensable management tool for line managers, environmental quality managers, environmental auditors and technical specialists to ensure that the organisation is environmentally and legally compliant.

Where doe you start when faced with an environmental legal problem? Road Map to Environmental legislation is a useful management guide which leads the reader to the precise information he is looking for.  It is designed to provide a lateral overview of South Africa’s complex environmental legislation that comprises a wide spectrum of legal measures - Acts, regulations, policies, international commitments, guideline documents and case law.

Since the last edition was published a number of important new amendments and additions have been made to the 300 odd South African legal measures that regulate environment-related business decisions and environmental governance. The series of National Environmental Management Acts have been expanded. Of particular importance is the new Environmental Impact Regulations that have important implications for all stakeholders. The increasing number of judgements in environment-related court cases also illustrate that environmental issues are being addressed more widely in our courts.

The book starts with a road map that leads the reader step-by-step to the legal measures that apply to a specific an environmental field or problem. Management fields covered are environmental governance, water management, air quality, noise pollution, visual and sense of place degradation, radioactive emissions, light pollution, waste, energy, mining, agricultural and forestry management , nature conservation, heritage protection, planning Environmental Management Systems (EMSs), just administrative action and environmental communication and consultation. The next chapter contains extracts from key environmental legislation followed by a comprehensive list of environmental laws and regulations and international conventions that have a bearing on environmental management. The remaining chapters demonstrate how environmental legal requirements and principles should be applied in practice and  illustrate how the increasing number of related court judgements have a bearing on business decisions.  

The incorporation of an ISO 14001 Environmental Management System has become the most universally used aid to address an organisation’s environmental management requirements. ISO requires compliance with applicable environmental legislation as reflected in all its core clauses. This book will assist practitioners to deal with the many challenges that environmental law pose and help managers to develop innovative problem-solving skills to deal with the many environmental challenges that an African context pose.

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