Organizational approaches towards environmental management

Questions: What are the environmental sustainability management policies? What are the shortcomings in environmental sustainability management polices? How can sustainability policies be improved for the betterment of environment? Answers: Introduction It is observed that due to the increasing population growth, unsustainable use of resource and poverty, environmental sustainability remains as big challenge for present and coming generation. The organizations in the corporate sector are trying to manage and simplify nature with limited knowledge about environmental sustainability. Many developed countries are beset with such environmental issues as deterioration of urban physical quality and land degradation (Lee and Saen 2012). These issues usually emanate from human activities for achieving high level of development. However, sufficient precautions have not been taken to balance the development objectives against the requirement to maintain the expected environmental quality. In several cases, the execution of sustainability strategies has tuned to be tricky, as it must deal with the serious issues within economic as well as political context that are pointed out by strong inertia. The issues appear at each level and affect pract ically the areas of national policy. The purpose of the research is to evaluate the current sustainability management policies developed by both private and public sector organizations. Background of the research Sustainable development is considered as the development that satisfies the needs of the current as well as future generation without compromising the ability of satisfying their needs. Sustainable development indicates the fulfillment of many conditions such as preserving the overall balance, the respect for the environment as well as prevention of natural resources (Starik and Kanashiro 2013). In addition to this, sustainable development is considered as more or less clean break compared to other modes of development, which increase the anxiety of social and ecological damage on global and local scale (Morelli 2013). However, the initiatives taken by the organizations are not effective and transparent enough due to the political complexities. The initiatives are very scattered, and they are not well promoted. The initiatives, which are hardly a part of the long-term plan, are implemented by large variety of players including the private and public sector originations. According to Seuring and Gold (2013), the environmental management emphasizes on the Functioning system but the sustainability concern focuses on -the direct as well as the indirect effects. It is worth mentioning that environmental policies articulated by one umbrella EMS system, which justifies the requirement for developing a parallel management system. The organizations are in the need of implementing some -sustainable strategy for achieving long-term value. Research aim and Objectives The major aim of the research is evaluate the environmental sustainability management approaches-effectiveness and future improvement. Objectives To critically examine the current environmental sustainability management polices developed by the organizations in the corporate sector To evaluate the effectiveness of the sustainability management strategies To identify the challenges in implementing sustainability policies Research Methods In order to derive the desired result from the proposed study, primary analysis will be conducted considering an oil and gas organization from the corporate field, which owes a big contribution to the sustainability of environment. Both qualitative and quantitative approach will be applied to collect the factual data. As the primary research is considered to be conducted, the positivism research philosophy will be chosen. References Lee, K.H. and Saen, R.F., 2012. Measuring corporate sustainability management: A data envelopment analysis approach.International Journal of Production Economics,140(1), pp.219-226. Morelli, J., 2013. Environmental sustainability: A definition for environmental professionals.Journal of environmental sustainability,1(1), p.2. Seuring, S. and Gold, S., 2013. Sustainability management beyond corporate boundaries: from stakeholders to performance.Journal of Cleaner Production,56, pp.1-6. Starik, M. and Kanashiro, P., 2013. Toward a theory of sustainability management: Uncovering and integrating the nearly obvious.Organization Enviro