TY - BOOK AU - Kirk,D. ED - ScienceDirect eBooks. TI - Environmental management for hotels: a student's handbook SN - 9780750623803 AV - TX911.3.M27 K567 1996 PY - 1996/// KW - Hotel management KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Hotels KW - Environmental aspects KW - Environmental management KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Small Business KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Management KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Based on the International Hotels Environment Initiative's Environmental management for hotels originally published in 1993; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Environmental management; Water management; Energy management; Management of the indoor environment; Materials and waste management; Index N2 - Environmental Management for Hotels is a textbook for hospitality students that covers the relatively new field of environmental management. The reader is guided in how to make decisions which allow hotels to obtain optimum benefits for the environment whilst not threatening their own financial viability. Students are given an understanding of both the concepts and practical implications of environmental challenges relating to hotels. The case study material incorporated ties in theory with real life, and provides an international context. The text emphasizes supervisory issues which relate to the management of hospitality operations in ways which are sensitive to the impact on the environment. The main areas of environmental management featured are: *water *energy *the indoor environment *materials and waste UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780750623803 ER -