Benefits of Environmental Management Systems in the Czech Republic

Abstract

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) are important voluntary tools used by the business sphere and other organisations in the world, as well as in the Czech Republic, for the management of the impacts of their activities, products and services on the environment. The article presents EMS as a tool for the management of the environmental aspects and impacts of organisations, depicts the development of their implementation into the practice deployed by organisations around the world and in the Czech Republic in the last 15 years and highlights the systems' benefits for the society and for the organisations themselves.

Environmental and social value of agriculture innovation

“…Growing global awareness of sustainable development together with the increasingly competitive global economy accentuates the need for the holistic environmental assessment tools for the managers and decision makers (Hyršlová and Hájek 2005;Hyršlová 2012;Curran 2013). Therefore, policy makers, managers, and other decision makers have begun to broaden their economic assessments to include the associated social and environmental aspects and impacts (Hyršlová et al 2006).…”