MANAGEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK

作者：Anghelache Constantin^*

来源：Metalurgia International, 2010, 15: 206-212.

• environment
• risk
• management
• environment indicators
• environmental performance
• standard

Presently, mankind faces an environment crisis, that endangers the very survival of the human race on this planet. The industrialization process, accelerated in the last decades of the 20(th) century and continued in the 21(st) century determined, together with the beneficial effects manifested in the increase in quality of life, the appearance of some pollutants, especially in the areas where people live, work and entertain themselves The risk is a situation/condition/event that, if occurs, generates an unfavorable effect both on the objectives, resources and reputation of the organization and on the successful achievement of its tasks/activities/mission. The environmental risk can manifest itself under the form of stressors (risk factors) generated by the human activity/inactivity and can generate adverse effects on the environment, and also the degradation and loss of sustainability. Monitoring the environmental performance is useful and necessary starting at the level of the processes of an organization, continuing with the level of component organizational entities and on their ensemble. In order to ease the evaluation of the status/quality of the environment and facilitate the reporting and communication of the environmental performances of an organization, the present paper synthetically presents a series of environmental indicators, and also the description of the essential requirements of the voluntary environment standards in the ISO 14000 series.

• 出版日期2010