Strategic Environmental Management: Integration of Environmental Scanning, Risk, Sustainability and Organizational Strategy

Abstract

Environmental management in organizations requires a strategic approach that integrates environmental aspects with the organization's decision-making process. This study aims to identify strategic components in environmental management and establish the relationship between environmental analysis, risks, sustainability objectives, and organizational strategy. The study uses a Narrative Literature Review approach by reviewing five journals that discuss external environmental analysis, environmental risk management, mitigation, social and environmental responsibility, sustainability objectives, and environmental performance. The results of the study indicate that environmental scanning can be the basis for identifying changes, opportunities, threats, and risks faced by organizations. Identified risks then require mitigation strategies and organizational responses that consider environmental aspects and stakeholder involvement. The results of risk management can then be translated into specific and measurable sustainability objectives, before being integrated into organizational strategies and actions. Furthermore, environmental performance becomes one indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy and its relationship to organizational goals. Based on the literature synthesis, this study produces a conceptual framework for Strategic Environmental Management that connects environmental scanning, environmental risk, sustainability objectives, and organizational strategy in a continuous process through monitoring and review. This framework demonstrates that environmental management needs to be viewed as a strategic and integrated process.