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Guidelines for Environmental Audit

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Environmental audit means a check, assessment, test or verification of some aspect of environmental management. Environmental audits may examine: compliance, monitoring programmes, impact predictions, equipment performance, physical hazards, financial risks, products and markets, baselines and benchmarks, management programmes and structures, planning procedures and legislation. This chapter provides guidelines for each type, in the form of structured sets of questions.

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Buckley, R. (1991). Guidelines for Environmental Audit. In: Perspectives in Environmental Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76502-5_7

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