The concept of a footprint in environmental management is a fairly common occurrence for example I wager that most of you reading this post will be aware of a carbon footprint and even possibly a water footprint (if you have been reading this blog you will have anyway!). For … [Read more...] about A way to measure environmental impact – the ecological footprint
Environmental Management
Top five tips for writing an effective environmental report
Introduction In this post I thought we could look at how to write an effective report. Report writing is something that I’ve done a lot of over my career so far. It is easy to take it for granted but writing an effective report whether for your NEBOSH, IEMA projects or … [Read more...] about Top five tips for writing an effective environmental report
Can’t See the Wood For the Trees
Forests provide a significant number of ecosystem services to humans. I think a lot of people generally think of forest as being useful in only one way – the timber that is produced. This is only a fraction of their importance. I thought in this post we could take a look at why … [Read more...] about Can’t See the Wood For the Trees
The Link between Resource Use and Waste Management
A lot of environmental professionals are aware of the waste hierarchy. As you may be aware it provides a framework for the minimisation of waste. The best options for waste, and as such are at the top of the hierarchy, are those that deal with the problem at source. It is … [Read more...] about The Link between Resource Use and Waste Management
Source-Pathway-Receptor from a pollution assessment and risk control perspective
Introduction When trying to undertake a task in the workplace I am always a great fan of structure. Rather than picking ideas out of my head in a random sort of way it is better to have some formalised approach. This then avoids missing something that should have been … [Read more...] about Source-Pathway-Receptor from a pollution assessment and risk control perspective