Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe

ISO 14001 environmental management system remained one tool widely implemented to mitigate industry's negative impacts on both aquatic and terrestrial life. However, skepticism still surrounds the worthiness of this tool in environmental management, as it merely sets a framework without stringe...

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Main Authors: Marambanyika, Thomas, Mutekwa, Timothy
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Published: Clarion University of Pennyslvania 2017
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http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1874
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description ISO 14001 environmental management system remained one tool widely implemented to mitigate industry's negative impacts on both aquatic and terrestrial life. However, skepticism still surrounds the worthiness of this tool in environmental management, as it merely sets a framework without stringent measures. The paper seeks to explore the effectiveness of the standard at Unilever South East Africa in improving corporate environmental performance and ultimately addressing the goals of sustainable development. Evaluation of the tool was accomplished with the aid of ISO 14031 environmental performance evaluation guidelines. Notwithstanding, the fact that the company has been improving its environmental performance, this in most cases lingered outside permitted legislative limits at the expense of recipient environment. In order for the standard to attain meaningful achievements in the realm of environmental management, there must be harmonization of local authority and central government's environmental regulations and coordination of industrial inspectorate activities to avoid conflicts.
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spelling ir-11408-18742022-06-27T13:49:06Z Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe Marambanyika, Thomas Mutekwa, Timothy Environmental management system ISO 14001 environmental management system remained one tool widely implemented to mitigate industry's negative impacts on both aquatic and terrestrial life. However, skepticism still surrounds the worthiness of this tool in environmental management, as it merely sets a framework without stringent measures. The paper seeks to explore the effectiveness of the standard at Unilever South East Africa in improving corporate environmental performance and ultimately addressing the goals of sustainable development. Evaluation of the tool was accomplished with the aid of ISO 14031 environmental performance evaluation guidelines. Notwithstanding, the fact that the company has been improving its environmental performance, this in most cases lingered outside permitted legislative limits at the expense of recipient environment. In order for the standard to attain meaningful achievements in the realm of environmental management, there must be harmonization of local authority and central government's environmental regulations and coordination of industrial inspectorate activities to avoid conflicts. 2017-01-11T13:52:29Z 2017-01-11T13:52:29Z 2009 Article 1520-5509 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237627481 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1874 en Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa;Vol. 11, No. 1; p. 280-297 open Clarion University of Pennyslvania
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Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe
title Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe
title_full Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe
title_fullStr Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe
title_short Effectiveness of ISO 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at Unilever Southeast Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe
title_sort effectiveness of iso 14001 environmental management systems in enhancing corporate environmental sustainability at unilever southeast africa in harare, zimbabwe
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