<p>The Swedish government decided in 1996 that the governmental authorities are to implemement</p><p>environmental management systems. Each year, the Swedish Environmental Protection</p><p>Agency compiles the authorities’ reports on their environmental management systems. The</p><p>compilation shows that not more than 20 % of the authorities perform environmental audits.</p><p>This study aims to investigate the authorities’ view of internal environmental audits, the incentives</p><p>of performing them. It also investigates if the environmental audits contribute to continuous</p><p>improvements. The study is a case study of nine participating authorities that all reported</p><p>to have performed environmental audits in 2005. The interviews were analysed based</p><p>on the extent of the internal environmental audits. The result shows that three of the nine participating</p><p>authorities did not perform any environmental audit at all. The results suggest that</p><p>the incentives of the greatest importance for internal environmental audits in the other six</p><p>authorities are external requirements, mainly requirements in ISO 14001, as well as commitment</p><p>in environmental issues among the employees and the organisational management. The</p><p>study also suggests that continuous improvement is a result of the internal environmental audit.</p><p>This is mainly due to the increased environmental awareness within the administration</p><p>and because of the continuous improvement of the environmental management system.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:su-7204 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Engström, Lina |
| Publisher | Stockholm University, Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM), Stockholm : Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig miljöforskning (CTM) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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