Open this publication in new window or tab >>2005 (English)In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, ISSN 1464-3332, E-ISSN 1757-5605, Vol. 7, no 3, p. 433-456Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Environmental management systems (EMS) require performance evaluation of significant environmental aspects. Much has been published on how to achieve environmental performance evaluation but little information is available on applications in practice. The Swedish National Rail Administration, Banverket, initiated the implementation of EMS in 1998, at about the same time as many other rail administrations. In this paper an overview of the application of EMS at rail administrations in selected countries is presented and systems for environmental performance evaluation within the EMS used by Banverket are analysed. The use of EMS by rail administrations was found to vary from the absence of environmental management to fully implemented EMS, mainly ISO 14001. At Banverket, EMS is widely used but the environmental performance evaluation could be improved by introducing indicators and merging all types of environmental monitoring, currently reported separately, into a common system
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
World Scientific Publishing Co., 2005
Keywords
Environmental performance evaluation; EMS; ISO14001; railway; Sweden
National Category
Other Civil Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10112 (URN)10.1142/S1464333205002134 (DOI)2-s2.0-24944580115 (Scopus ID)
Note
QC 201007292009-03-232009-03-232022-09-13Bibliographically approved