# Environmental manager > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Environmental_manager > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Environmental_manager.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_manager > Source revision: 1349016664 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) '''Environmental managers''' are involved in processes that ''seek to'' [control](/source/Control_(management)) some environmental entities in orientation to a [plan](/source/plan) or idea. Whether such control is possible, however, is contested. Examples for environmental managers range from corporate agents (corporate environmental managers) via managers of a [nature reserve](/source/nature_reserve), to environmental and resource planning agents but, [analytically](/source/analysis) seen, also involve [indigenous](/source/indigenous_peoples) environmental managers, [farmer](/source/farmer)sM. Kaljonen. Co-construction of agency and environmental management. the case of agri-environmental policy implementation at finnish farms. Journal of Rural Studies, 22(2):205 – 216, 2006. or [environmental activists](/source/environmental_activists). In many accounts, [hope](/source/hope) is held that environmental managers implement grand plans or political programmes. At the heart of the notion of environmental managers is, thus, a [pragmatic](/source/pragmatism)P. Prasad and M. Elmes. In the name of the practical: Unearthing the hegemony of pragmatics in the discourse of environmental management. Journal of Management Studies, 42(4):845–867, 2005. and [rational actor](/source/rational_actor) who optimises environments in orientation to some [aim](/source/Goal). Critical academics point out that the very idea that such managers exist and are imagined as capable of managing may well be flawed.D. Levy. Environmental Management as Political Sustainability. Organization & Environment, 10(2):126–147, 1997. == Corporate environmental managers == [Steve Fineman](/source/Steve_Fineman) studied UK managers and their "'green' selves and roles" in the last decade, suggesting that while [environmental problem](/source/ecological_crisis)s may be recognised by them, production is seen as legitimising [pollution](/source/pollution).S. Fineman. Constructing the green manager. British Journal of Management, 8:31–38, 1997. Optimistic accounts see managers as stewards of [environmental ethics](/source/environmental_ethics).W. Brown and N. Karagozoglu. Current practices in environmental management. Business Horizons, 41(4):12–18, Jul.-Aug. 1998. Literature differentiates different styles by managers to engage with the environment. N. Gunningham, R. Kagan, and D. Thornton. Shades of green: business, regulation, and environment. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2003. == State environmental managers == State institutions can manage directly environments through their staff.K. Asdal. Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing. Geoforum, 39(1):123–132, 2008. And state institutions can use civil agents on their behalf. Examples for the latter are [farmer](/source/farmer)sM. Kaljonen. Co-construction of agency and environmental management. the case of agri-environmental policy implementation at finnish farms. Journal of Rural Studies, 22(2):205 – 216, 2006. who are to implement environmental regulation, [citizen](/source/citizen)s subject to e.g. recycling legislation or independent [auditor](/source/auditor)s who use [law](/source/law)s as [standard](/source/Environmental_standard)s. [Military](/source/Military) agents can also act as environmental managers insofar as their action constitutes planned intervention in some environment (e.g. the burning of a [forest](/source/forest), the destruction of [street](/source/street)s or managing an open landscape for [military training](/source/military_training)), trying to achieve military aims. == Scientists as environmental managers == A variety of [scientist](/source/scientist)s are involved directly in environmental management. Cases of [ecologists](/source/ecologists) acting as managers of [ecosystems](/source/ecosystems)L. Asplen. Going with the flow: Living the mangle through environmental management practice. In A. Pickering and K. Guzik, editors, The mangle in practice: science, society, and becoming, Science and Cultural Theory, pages 163–184. Duke University Press Books, Durham and London, 2008. are known. == Study of environmental managers == The very notion that humans may be able to manage environments is criticised for being top-down, [anthropocentric](/source/anthropocentric) and short-sighted.D. Bavington. Managerial ecology and its discontents: Exploring the complexities of control, careful use and coping in resource and environmental management. Environments - A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 30(3):3–22, 2002. and R. Bryant and G. Wilson. Rethinking environmental management. Progress in Human Geography, 22(3):321–343, Sep 1998. == See also == * [Environmental activist](/source/Environmental_activist) * [Chief sustainability officer](/source/Chief_sustainability_officer) * [Rational planning model](/source/Rational_planning_model) == References == {{Reflist|2}} == External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214101342/http://www.ems-research.org/environmental-management-practised How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management] * [https://www.environmentalmanager.org The Environmental Manager Symposium] Category:Environmental sociology Category:Environmental policy Category:Sustainability and environmental management --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Environmental manager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_manager) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_manager?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.