Abstract
With the environmental deterioration, there are increasing environmental risks for enterprises, which may bear a tremendous responsibility for environmental liabilities. Based on the basic principles and techniques of environment risk assessment and management for enterprise, from the perspective of environmental whole process management, combining with assessment techniques and management procedures of environmental risk, and analysis framework of environmental damage total cost, this paper proposes the prevention and control methodology of environmental liabilities in enterprise, namely, The prevention method includes environmental materials and environmental liability insurance; The whole process control method includes Ecological Design and ISO14000 environmental management framework; The post-management method includes hazardous waste recycling and management and damage coordination and management of sudden environmental incidents. These methods can provide a good reference for the control of environmental risk, prevention of environmental liabilities in enterprise.
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It is worth mentioning that environmental regulations and environmental risk management of China have entered a new period because of the promulgation of environmental assessment system for public listed companies in China. This is not the voluntary measures for pollution prevention, but the expansion and financing of enterprise will has been affected dramatically by this mandatory external regulation, and can promote pollution prevention and management of enterprises.
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In addition, many environmental management system or methods can also be effective in the prevention and management of environmental liabilities which may have been already occurred in enterprise, such as cleaner production, environmental internal audit system, the mediation of court proceedings, etc. To clean production, the means include: (1) The construction of closed utilization system of raw materials and resources circulation; (2) the development of new environmentally friendly process by reforming process equipment; (3) the improvement of product system and the adjustment of product structure; (4) the application of advanced environmental management system, the strengthen of scientific management. The basic aim is to reduce waste and avoid environmental liabilities, through the minimization of waste discharges or emissions during production process which is based on energy conservation, reducing consumption and further treatment of waste, and so that the final discharges of waste can meet or better than the national standards.
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We appreciate the anonymous referrer’s constructive suggestions and comments on this paper. Thanks to the native speaker for the work of grammar checking and editing the paper. All remaining errors are my own.
This paper is funded by the Scientific Research Program of Chinalco, China (EIS2006CCFF08-1304), Innovated Research Fund of Hunan Province, China (1343-74236000001), Humanities and Social Sciences project, Ministry of Education, China (09YJAZH104), Social Sciences Research Funds of Hunan Province, China (07YBA070).
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Zhou, Z., Xiao, X. (2011). The Prevention and Control of Environmental Liability Based on Environmental Risk Management and Assessment in Enterprise. In: Wu, D. (eds) Quantitative Financial Risk Management. Computational Risk Management, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19339-2_19
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