"This book is designed to meet the urgent need for a comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It aims to become the standard textbook for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this increasingly multidisciplinary subject for practitioners. Written by the internationally acknowledged experts S ..."
"This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting. This fourth volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series is characterized by a broad geographical and a contextual range of topics. Contributions from nearly all continents discuss new dev- opments in environmental accounting and investigate topics and links - tw ..."
"Sustainable development will not happen without substantial contributions from and leading roles of companies and business organizations. This requires the provision of adequate information on corporate social and ecological impacts and performance. For the last decade, progress has been made in developing and adapting accounting mechanisms to these needs but significant work is still needed to tackle the problems associated with conven ..."
"Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written by two of the world's leading experts in the field in order to provide the most comprehensive and state-of-the-art textbook on environmental accounting yet attempted. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers, professional accountants, and corporate and organisational managers. Although no prior knowledge of e ..."
"The difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better with economic business goals. Over the last decade, the relationship between environmental and economic performance, and more recently the interaction between sustainability performance and business competitiveness, have received considerable attention in both theory and practice. However, to ..."
"6 Companies with fewer than 10 employees are not included. 7 For a detailed list
of environmental cost items analysed in the companies involved see Appendix. 8
For the background of the check lists for quality costs see: American Society for
Quality Control (1987.1995); Dale Barrie and Plunkett (1999); Harrington (1987)
and Saita M (1971,1991). For environmental costs see: Bartolomeo (1997).
Bartolomeo et al. (1999); Bennett et al. ..."
"Sustainability requires companies to develop in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable manner. Corporate sustainable development in turn requires movement towards cleaner production. In order to recognize the potential from cleaner production - reduced costs and fewer environmental impacts through the reduced use of materials - environmental management accounting (EMA) is a necessary ..."
"This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting. This fourth volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series is characterized by a broad geographical and a contextual range of topics. Contributions from nearly all continents discuss new dev- opments in environmental accounting and investigate topics and links - tw ..."
"This book is designed to meet the urgent need for a comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It will become the standard textbook for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this increasingly multidisciplinary subject for practitioners. Written by the internationally acknowledged experts Stef ..."
""Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice" has been written in order to provide an up-to-date textbook in the rapidly developing field of environmental accounting. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers, professional accountants, and corporate and organizational managers. Although no prior knowledge of environmental accounting is necessary to understand the critic ..."
"Case Studies of South-East Asian Companies Christian Herzig, Tobias Viere,
Stefan Schaltegger, Roger L. Burritt. 6. Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Snack
Producer JBC Food, the Philippines Introduction This case study explores the
applicationof EMAat JBCFood Corporation, a snack producer onthe outskirts
ofthe Philippine capital Manila. Prior to thecase study, a groupof managersand
engineers was constantly workingon measures to i ..."
"Environmental accounting is the basis for taking environmentally relevant facts into consideration in corporate decision-making. Any newcomer to the field will find this book an excellent introduction to the main issues in not only identifying the problems when conventional accounting takes the environment into consideration but also linking environmental with traditional accounting."
"This is the third volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series of selected refereed papers on environmental management accounting drawn primarily from papers presented at EMAN-Europe's annual c- ferences. Most of the papers in this volume were ?rst presented at the 6th EMAN- Europe Annual Conference at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, on 23-24 January 2003. The focus of the conference and the papers pre ..."
"The co-authors of that first version, Kaspar Muller and Henriette Hindrichsen,
have decided to concentrate on consulting. Contemporary Environmental
Accounting is substantially revised and updated and contains various new
chapters dealing with emerging issues of environmental accounting. We would
nevertheless like to thank Kaspar and Henriette for their contribution to the earlier
text. We offer special thanks to Matthias Blom, Tho ..."
"Eco-Efficiency by Eco-Controlling (Zürich: VDF). Müller, K., J. de Frutos, K.
Schüssler and H. Haarbosch (1994) “Environmental Reporting and Disclosures:
The Financial Analyst's View' (London:Working Group of Environmental Issues of
the Accounting Commission of the European Federation of Financial Analysts
Society). 426 CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING Müller-Wenk
, R. (1978) Die Ökologische Buchhaltung."
"Jodie Thorpe and Kavita Prakash-Mani SustainAbility, UK Abstract: While a
growing body of research shows how corporate action on sustainability can
improve financial performance, the focus to date has been on companies in
developed markets. Based on an analysis of more than 240 case studies from
over 60 countries, this study focuses on addressing the gap. It analyses the '
business case' for sustainability in emerging markets, ident ..."
"In the business context, the sphere of politics is related mostly to struggles over
distribution of the value that has been created by corporate activity. The struggle
is related to the fact that goods are scarce and economic resources limited.
Hence ..."