Covers the most recent topics in the field of environmental management and provides a broad focus on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of environmental management * Provides an up-to-date survey of the field from the perspective of different disciplines * Covers the topic of environmental management from multiple perspectives, namely, natural sciences, engineering, business, social sciences, and methods and tools perspectives * Combines both academic rigor and practical approach through literature reviews and theories and examples and case studies from diverse geographic areas and policy domains * Explores local and global issues of environmental management and analyzes the role of various contributors in the environmental management process * Chapter contents are appropriately demonstrated with numerous pictures, charts, graphs, and tables, and accompanied by a detailed reference list for further readings