Managing Environment Flashcards
environment in management process model
- Surrounds the entire model
- Emphasis on managing the near environment that directly affects individuals and families
ways we can manage environment
- Stewards of the earth
- Natural capital: from an economics perspective, the environment is natural capital that needs to be protected
- Sustainable development: ensuring that present and future social needs are met
- Product life cycle
- Reducing, reusing, recycling
environmentalism
- How to retain existing environmental resources; concern for environment
- Both social (“save x, y, z”) and physical
environmental problems
- Water: shortage, pollution (97% of world’s water unusable)
- Noise: any unwanted sound
- Energy: production, wastage, pollution
- Waste, recycling: integrated waste management
- Air quality: deterioration comes from many sources
costs of reducing energy use
- Installation
- Maintenance
- Time
- Effort required
- Poor disapproval
- Psychological cost: “felt deprivation”
methods of reducing energy use
- Efficiency investments (saves most money yet used least)
- Better management
- Curtailment of amenities
inaccurate estimates of saving money
- Overestimate savings when use curtailment and management
- Underestimate savings from efficiency investments
do equal billing policies help reduce use of energy?
- People consume more
- Distances usage from cost
- No price cues
- Concern: used by low-income and elderly people
BC hydro initiatives
- Recognize businesses/universities as meeting sustainable goals
- Households:
- Lighting rebates
- Fridge buyback
- Windows rebate program
generational differences (boomers vs. millennials, surveyed when they were same age)
- Personal effort to help environment
- Baby Boomer: 15%
- Millennial: 5%
- Clean-up programs
- Baby Boomer: 33%
- Millennial: 20%
deterrents to recycling
- Separation rule
- Storage system
- Removal procedure
why people don’t recycle (most to least)
- Inconvenient: 43%
- Time consuming: 40%
- Took up too much space: 33%
- Recycling as much as they could
- Used non-recycled items some other way (ie. Burning papers)
why people recycle
- Social responsibility: 82%
- Want to reduce landfill: 75%
- Reduce demand for raw materials: 53%
does recycling always help?
- NO!
- Resource consumption increases when your have option to recycle
- Especially when a product is free or the cost is paid by others (ie. Paper at the office, paper towels)
where do clothes go when they’re given to charity?
½ sold to rag industry, over 1/3 sold through thrift stores
Fast Fashion
- disposable fashion (Ex. H&M stores)
- Young women were innovators and early adopters
- Influenced by fashion media
- Clothes manufactured to wear a short time (<10 times)
- More textile waste than before (30% vs. 7%)
- Tend to dispose of clothing without considering further use of item or its environmental impact
- 36% donated to thrift stores, 7% resold and 7% recycled, and rest in trash
efforts to decrease textile waste
- Are great at recycling other items so have chance of encouraging textile recycling if convenient
- Oxfam organized clothes swapping events
- Ex. Marks & Spensers + Oxfam: every bag of unwanted M&S clothes donated received coupon for shopping
clothes swapping events
- Rotate homes
- Bring clothes, accessories, books, linens
- Set rules (ie. Bring 15 good-quality items and swap for 15)
5 common environmental themes
- Community of meaning and support
- Emotional affiliation
- Localized access to political discourses
- Personalization of the practice
- Identity formation
Community of meaning and support
Green bags were bought and used to communicate membership in an environmentally conscious local community
Emotional affiliation
- Avoiding plastic bags reminds them they are different or even better than others about the environment
- If deviate from using green bags, feel guilty
Localized access to political discourses
- Local sources (media, people) alerted them to environmental issue of plastic bags
- Then they began to notice stores that offered alternatives to plastic