A New Approach for Assessing Forms and Efficiency of Environmental Management

Abstract

This paper suggests a new holistic framework for analyzing, assessment and improvement of environmental management using agro-business as an example. It incorporates an interdisciplinary approach combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Ecology, Technology, Behavioral and Political Sciences, and presents a modern framework for analyzing and evaluating the system of environmental management including: specification of specific managerial actors, needs and spectrum of feasible governing modes (institutional environment; private, collective, market, and public modes) at different level of decision-making (individual, farm, eco-system, local, regional, national, transnational, and global); specification of critical socio-economic, natural, technological, behavioral etc. factors of managerial choice, and feasible spectrum of (private, collective, public, international) managerial forms; defining and assessing comparative and absolute efficiency of individual management forms and the system of ecomanagement; suggesting realistic approach for improvement of forms of public intervention in eco-management, etc.1 In modern agriculture there are more and more instances where agricultural production is entirely integrated by outside agent (a processor, retailer, restaurant chain, exporter, etc.) and carried as a part of a larger (industrial, internal input supply, etc.) activity and/or strategy. Here the "farmers" are turned into hired labor and take part in the "internal" division of labor of a major non-agricultural activity. Citation: Bachev H (2014)A New Approach for Assessing Forms and Efficiency of Environmental Management. Int J Econ Manag Sci 3: 202.