TOWARD AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: APPLYING LESSONS FROM CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

dc.creatorBatie, Sandra S.
dc.creatorArcenas, Agustin
dc.date2017-04-01T20:00:39Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T03:02:33Z
dc.descriptionMany business firms both in the U.S. and abroad are practicing corporate environmental management. They are committed to improving the efficiency of material use, energy use and water use; to recycle; to make safer products and processes and to reduce their overall impact on the environment. In pursuing corporate environmental management, some businesses have found that the presumed tradeoff between profits and environmental quality does not always apply. Instead, by innovating and redesigning their products, processes, corporate culture, and organizational strategy, these firms have been able to improve environmental performance and add to profits. These improved profits are sometimes referred to as "innovation offsets" because they result from technological changes to reduce pollution which also reduce production costs (and/or improve productivity) and thereby "offset" the costs of compliance. The necessary technological innovation is pursued when firms take a dynamic investment perspective rather than presume a static tradeoff between profits and environmental quality.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.11807
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11807/files/sp98-36.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11807
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/525364
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11807
dc.titleTOWARD AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: APPLYING LESSONS FROM CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
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