Environmental Project Management: Contextual Enablers and Boundaries

Abstract

This paper aims to identify the factors that are contributing to or limiting project management application in the field of environment protection at the national and local levels. Based on those factors, the paper aims to define key enablers and important actions to integrate project management in environmental projects. The project management theory in the context of environmental protection suggests that the strategy for implementing project management should be adjusted to local needs in terms of the economic, political, social and administrative system. Based on the literature review, empirical research has been conducted, supported with interviews with environmental officials from local government units in the Republic of Serbia. The primary conclusion finds collaboration with relevant local and national institutions, support from local government and the presence of the relevant strategic documents at the local level as the main influencing factors. The paper tends to define the current state of project management in this field and defines important actions to support the capacity building of local governments in the area of environmental project management.KeywordsEnvironmentProtectionProjectLocalGovernment