Abstract
Air transport has made a major contribution to globalization and world economic growth. However, aircraft operations inevitably have a serious impact on the environment. Leading airlines have established policies, goals, and action plans on environmental management. This study uses a questionnaire survey to gain an understanding of the views and attitudes of airline managers in Taiwan toward environmental management. The results show that airline managers mostly have a positive and supportive attitude regarding environmental management, and believe that airlines can play an important role in environmental protection. The most important motivations for promoting environmental management are improving company image, reducing harm to the natural environment, and fulfilling corporate social responsibility, while the main obstacles to the development of environmental management are insufficient government grants, subsidies, and incentives, investment capital too high, and inadequate aviation environmental regulations. This study also reveals that the government should take a more proactive role in the development of Taiwanese airlines’ environmental management.
Highlights
Air transport has made a major contribution to globalization and world economic growth
The results show that airline managers mostly have a positive and supportive attitude regarding environmental management, and believe that airlines can play an important role in environmental protection
Taiwan is still at early stage in the development environmental management, the results show that airline managers mostly have a positive and supportive attitude towards environmental management
Summary
Air transport has made a major contribution to globalization and world economic growth. Aircraft consume energy, cause high levels of noise, and release a large amount of exhaust, all of which has a serious impact on the environment (Mayor & Tol, 2009; Lassen, 2010; Cowper-Smith & de Grosbois, 2011). Projected air travel growth in coming decades has made corporate environmental management a important issue for the airline sector (Lynes & Dredge, 2006). In 2007, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) put forward the Four-Pillar Strategy to deal with these impacts. The strategy brings together airlines, aircraft and engine manufactures, air traffic controllers, airports, and other stakeholders in a major effort to improve environmental performance. It is hoped that by 2020, the goal of carbon-neutral growth can be achieved (IATA, 2007)
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