Nearly all inspectors are employed for their professional expertise but, paradoxically, being an inspector distances them from that expertise. Inspectors need knowledge on which to base inspection judgements. Knowledge is the basis of implementing policy or of innovating. How do they update...

Environmental issues can present some daunting operational concerns for all types of organization, whether in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Managing them requires environmental professionals with a working knowledge of the rapidly developing body of regulatory measures. This new...

Risk research has tended to focus on the elements of a risk that make it of more concern to the public or characteristics of the individual that change their risk perceptions. While these two lines of research have identified a number of important factors they have, for the most part, been...

pt. 1. The environmental context -- pt. 2. Environmental themes -- pt. 3. Managing environmental performance -- pt. 4. Measuring and communicating environmental performance -- pt. 5. Evaluation tools -- pt. 6. The challenges ahead for the environmental profession.