Environmental management and audits

AN ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT An Audit is not the same as an Inventory Many people can confuse an audit with an inventory. The one vital difference between the inventory and an audit is that the inventory is concerned only with the environment, whereas an audit concerns the relationship of a community. The main purpose of the inventory is to collect environmental facts. (Newman et al., 1997). An audit relates …

…can be adapted to influence implementation at the local level. Further, the author concludes that it is easier to influence implementation efforts than regulatory style, and easier to employ formal, approaches than to foster appeasing approaches. Turner, R. Kerry, David Pearce and Ian Bateman. 1993. Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Introduction to application of basic economic principles to natural resource and environmental management and policy instruments for regulating resources and pollution.