BRUCE W. PIASECKI, PhD, is Director of the Environmental Management Program, Lally Management Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also the founder and President of the American Hazard Control Group, an environmental management consulting firm whose clients include the American Plastics Council, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Hoechst Celanese, the United States Congress, and the EPA. He is the editor of the Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and the author of many influential books and articles on environmental management issues. Other prestigious titles by Dr. Piasecki include Beyond Dumping, America's Future in Toxic Waste Management, and In Search of Environmental Excellence which received the Nature Society Book of the Year Award for 1990.