The importance of environmental auditing in ensuring sustainable development

الملخص EN

The increasing consciousness of environmental protection has fostered the development of environmental auditing.

Within the globalized economy, environmental auditing is established as an essential mean for the management of environmental performance.

The objective of this study is to illustrate the important of environmental auditing as tool to ensure sustainable development.

in the first part of this paper to give a general idea of Sustainable development, including definition, principle basic, gaols, approach and processes of environmental auditing.

In the second part, deals with environmental audit definition, types and its benefits.

The last parts focused on the process and tools of environmental audit.