Executive GIS for environmental cost management
- EDS Management Consulting, Strafford, PA (United States)
The regulatory history and economic complexity of the past 25 years has resulted in a large number of point solution software systems for managing environmental information. These include in-house developed systems using spread sheets, word processing, and database management software as well as packaged applications software. These approaches have generally resulted from a response to each new regulatory requirement, leading to a piecemeal implementation. A few of these approaches have been integrated to some extent, having a common database and user interface; others that have been developed more recently take advantage of new technologies and are just beginning to gain experience in the market. Generally, these systems have been compliance driven for use at the plant level, and not particularly relevant to the needs of executives. Financial management, control of financial risk, and cost containment, the driving issues of concern to corporate executives, are the typical components of an Executive Information System (EIS). In the environmental arena, EIS developed to track site cleanup costs, to support measures for reducing these costs and to assure fair allocations of costs in cases where several parties are involved. This paper addresses the issues of Environmental EIS development through the integration of geographic information system (GIS) technology with an emerging cost accounting methodology.
- OSTI ID:
- 122478
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950679--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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