Author: unerman/bebbing
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: accountability, accounting, sustainability
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2007-08-20
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0415384893
ISBN-13: 9780415384896

This exciting book is one of the first textbooks in the fast growing area of sustainability accounting. Contributed to, and edited by an impressive array of internationally renowned authorities, it focuses on the use of sustainability accounting both as an external accountability mechanism (external reporting) and as a tool for helping managers assess and manage the social and environmental impacts of their operations (management accounting). Using real-life examples and case studies to emphasize the links between the conceptual basis and issues in practice, this outstanding book addresses the

Author: K. Uno
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: amp, environment, economy, sustainability, options, accounting, environmental
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 1995-05-31
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 0792335139
ISBN-13: 9780792335139

In this study, the author constructs a systematic statistical framework for studying the environment and technology, the economy and society, and performs a series of analyses of the impact of human activities on the environment. The many topics analyzed include: energy consumption, resource use, water and air pollution, technology, recycling, and pollution prevention. From the theoretical perspective, Environmental Options: Accounting for Sustainability provides not only a model at the global level, but also at the level of individual industries, and for various social groups. Of eq

Author: Gwendolen B. White
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Keywords: health, managerial, accounting, corporate, wealth, reporting, managing, sustainability
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 2009-11-09
List price: $27.90
ISBN-10: 1606490788
ISBN-13: 9781606490785

Environmental and sustainability reporting involves nonfinancial and financial indicators of an organization’s impact on environmental, economic, and social dimensions of their operations. As stakeholders (e.g., investors, consumers, governments, donors, and employees) of organizations demand more transparency from profit and not-for-profit entities, environmental and sustainability reporting is a means to address this demand. Public interest in the environmental and social impacts of corporation began in the 1960s and 1970s. Protests against the Vietnam War, concern for the environment,

Authors:Anthony Hopwood, Jeffrey Unerman, Jessica Fries,
Publisher: EarthScan
Keywords: insights, practical, sustainability, accounting
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-06-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1849710678
ISBN-13: 9781849710671

If businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into their decision-making and reporting. However, the translation of this aspiration into effective action is often inhibited by the lack of systems and procedures that take sustainability into account. Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights will help organizations to address these issues. The book sets out a number of tools and approaches that have been developed and applied by leading o

Authors:Stefan Schaltegger, Martin Bennett, Roger Burritt,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: industry, science, efficiency, eco, accounting, reporting, sustainability
Number of Pages: 716
Published: 2006-10-05
List price: $329.00
ISBN-10: 1402040792
ISBN-13: 9781402040795

This is the fourth in a series of books publishing the best contributions on environmental management accounting (EMA) from around the world. It has been developed by the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN). Contributions are drawn primarily from papers presented at EMAN-EU and EMAN-Asia Pacific conferences in the last two years. Brought together in this volume are international examples of leading thinking and practice in this rapidly developing area. Sustainability Accounting and Reporting provides an up-to-date overview of the most current views, developments, costs and ben

Authors:Fred Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, Peter Baccini,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sustainability, global, alliance, volume, bookseries, series, cities, future, dynamics
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1402005415
ISBN-13: 9781402005411

The world’s burgeoning cities are a critical fact of the 21st Century -- and represent one of the greatest challenges to the future. By the year 2050 cities with populations over three million will more than double from 70 today to over 150. The authors in this book claim that contrary to conventional wisdom, that cities distort natural processes, just the opposite is true. Cities are far more than the sinks of energy, vast drains of natural resources, and obstacles to sustainable development. Properly managed, they claim, cities can be transformative arenas in which raw materia

Author: Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: sustainability, innovation, consequences, conditions, innovations, towards
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-11-09
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3790816493
ISBN-13: 9783790816495

The volume contains eight articles together with comments by twenty authors and discussants on the topic of innovations and sustainability. It provides a competently written, balanced and differentiated state-of-the-art insight into the relation between innovations and sustainability from the perspective of evolutionary economics. The scope of the contributions encompasses the technological, social, organizational, and political dimensions of the topic. Each article is discussed by a competently written commentary providing a critical evaluation and relating it to the relevant literature. Part