THE IMPACT OF THE INTEGRATION AMONG THE ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC FACTORS ON RESOURCE PROTECTION TO ACHIEVE THE SUSTAINABILITY

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Post Grad., Institute of Environmental Studies & Research, Ain Shams University

2 Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University

Abstract

The current study aims to identify the shortness aspects in industrial companies that applying the environmental auditing, identifying its impact on protection of economic resources for achieving sustainable development as well. The study discusses the importance of environmental risks and their reflections on the environment and the extent that the economical and social components and elements are available within industrial corporates; exposing the impact of integration between environmental auditing and the economic and social components and elements on protection of economic resources and its impact on environmental control authorities of industrial companies. The study sample consists of (384) male/female employees in industrial companies in addition to a number of teaching staff in Egyptian universities and financial managers. The study counts on the  statistical analysis data by recruiting the test of reliability and validity and internal coherence of data for identifying the potentiality of generalizing the study results obtained from the study population ; then examining the frequency distribution of the investigation form and employ variables regarding central tendency and dispersion, ending with examining of the relationship between different variables for testing hypotheses and reaching to the research results. The study uses a group of statistical approaches including the simple correlation analysis, the multiple regression analysis, the factorial assertive analysis and the path-analysis  for analyzing data reaching the study to the result that there is a significant statistically positive essential correlation between achieving integration between environmental auditing and the economic-social components and achieving sustainable development from one hand and conserving the economic and social available resources of the industrial companies on the other hand by accepting branch-hypotheses. The study ends by a group of recommendations including the application of procedures and approaches of environmental auditing and adding the standards leading to checking the environmental performance for protecting the environment, increases environmental awareness, elevation of the commitment level of applying policies and environmental legislations, cooperation and coordination between companies and the society in addition to existence of effective environmental control and good environmental planning contribute providing environmental information that achieve sustainable development, conserve environmental resources and merging modern appropriate techniques in development plans, searching for new renewable clean energy resources and concerning with economic indicators of sustainable development.
 

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