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Environmental Performance Measurement

Environmental Performance Measurement

Descriptive Assessment

In the past, environmental management mainly focussed on the identification of ecologically ori-ented requirements made on enterprises by relevant stakeholders, on the development of related corporate strategies and also on the introduction of a corporate system of environmental mana-gement. Meanwhile, research shifted its focus onto the assessment of the actual results that are obtained with the introduction of an environmental management system as well as onto the de-termination of consistent criteria for the measurement, evaluation and assessment of these results (Environmental Performance Measurement (EPM)).
These criteria will allow internal and also external benchmarking.