EMS / Industry:

Environmental Management Systems, ISO 14001, and Industrial Ecology, Keith Pezzoli, PI
• Investigate the role of information and communications technology in environmental decision-making and regulatory reform regarding toxics, hazardous waste and pollution prevention.
• Lay groundwork for industrial cluster analysis and integrated risk assessment in the context of promoting transborder regional planning and industrial ecology.

This EMS project is tied into the efforts of the Multi-State Workgroup (MSWG) EMSs, a consortium of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, industry representatives and academia that is examining the public policy implications of environmental management systems (EMSs), particularly the global standard ISO 14001. One of the most significant research-driven environmental policy initiative in the US today concerns the potential of EMSs to improve environmental performance in a wide range of organizations. My work in the field of EMS and industrial ecology also draws from my participation in UCSD’s Environmental Informatics Interest Group. This group is led by research scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Our intent is to explore the potential synergies in environmental informatics and to address ways in which primary data and internet tools can be provided to facilitate research. Examples of such synergies include pooling computer programming resources for developing visualization tools, building cross-disciplinary databases, and creating an informational architecture that enables collaboration between computer science and fields such as urban studies and planning, biogeography, anthropology, communications, and/or environmental toxicology.

Click here for a 30 page pre-proposal, (pdf file) submitted to the World Bank (1998) re EMS and Industrial Ecology

Mexico: The Guadalajara Environmental Management Pilot
Mexico Department and the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Sector Management Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office, Report No. 18071-ME, September 8, 1998
http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/guada/
http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/guada/18071.pdf

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS
A web tool that calculates how much of an ecological footprint each person has by acreage:
http://www.myfootprint.org/
This helps throw some light on the interdependencies that tie economy and ecology together across scales---from local to global and back again. Also see:
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS OF NATIONS

" The Ecological Footprint is a tool for measuring and analyzing human natural resource consumption and waste output within the context of nature?s renewable and regenerative capacity (or biocapacity)." http://www.rprogress.org/publications/footprintnations2004.pdf