This comprehensively updated third edition explores the nature and role of environmental management and offers an introduction to this rapidly expanding and changing field. It focuses on challenges and opportunities, and core concepts including sustainable development.The book is divided into five parts:Part I (Introduction to Environmental Management): four introductory chapters cover the justification for environmental management, its theory, scope, goals and scientific backgroundPart II (Practice): explores environmental management in economics, law and business and environmental management’s relation with environmentalism, international agreements and monitoringPart III (Global Challenges and Opportunities): examines resources, challenges and opportunities, both natural and human-caused or human-aggravatedPart IV (Responses to Global Challenges and Opportunities): explores mitigation, vulnerability, resilience, adaptation and how technology, social change and politics affect respon