Abstract:
Environmental management systems in organizations in general and in universities in special are normally analyzed based on technical or ecological considerations. Legal compliance of the applicable environmental legislation is another common concern. In the context of implementation and setup of environmental management systems organizational aspects are normally not fully developed. In our analysis we will apply system theoretic considerations on the environmental management standards EMAS and ISO 14000 (in representation to the different approaches that can be chosen in for environmental management systems) in order to introduce them into organizational complexity. With the help of organizational theory we will develop a simple model that we will apply on the environmental management system of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi.
