International Workshop EMIS and Business Applications

Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) are software systems with the aim to gather, process, and provide environmental information, inside companies and in exchange with other actors in industry, governmental bodies, and society. EMIS help to identify environmental impacts and support measures avoiding these impacts or reducing them. They provide the necessary information support for decision making in companies. Hence, EMIS can be viewed as certain Information Systems usually implemented in companies as a part of their Environmental Management Systems.

General Focus

Since its launch more than two decades ago, the field that we call today as “Environmental Management Information Systems” (EMIS) has rapidly evolved. The development path could be described as a movement away from standalone systems and single tools focused on certain environmental aspects like legal compliance or material input and energy consumption to comprehensive EMIS that help to assess even a company’s integrated sustainability performance, i.e. environmental, social, economic, and mutual interrelations.

The goal of this workshop is (i) to describe the current state of the art and latest developments of EMIS and (ii) to investigate how EMIS could be linked sucessfully with other methods and instruments along business processes and across business units, finally to advance their use as valuable tools for operational and strategic environmental management and to support managerial decision-making in a proper manner. Further, latest trends in EMIS like developments in Open Source, assistance in carbon footprints issues for products and processes and usability will be discussed.

Topics

We are looking forward to receiving contributions including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• ICT architectures for EMIS
• EMIS Integration
• EMIS in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• Environmental Management Accounting
• Sustainability Reporting
• EMIS Implementations
• Improving the usability of EMIS
• Assistance in Carbon Footprinting issues
• EMIS and Mobile Computing

Dates

See EnviroInfo 2009 Conference Dates
20.04.2009 Electronic submission of full papers or extended abstracts for workshops

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