Sustainability Accounting and Reporting - Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: 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 benefits in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting. The book discusses new developments in environmental accounting and investigates topics in and links between corporate environmental and sustainability issues as well as between strategy, measurement and information management, and between accounting and reporting. Papers presented in this research based publication have been through an independent peer review and thorough editing process to ensure the highest possible research quality for theory based submissions and, for the more applied contributions, the greatest potential usefulness and impact for corporate and public-policy practitioners. Table of Contents: Preface. 1. Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: Development, Linkages and Reflection. An Introduction; Stefan Schaltegger, Martin Bennett and Roger Burritt.-Part I Conceptual Developments of Sustainability Accounting.- 2. Corporate Sustainability Accounting. A Catchphrase for Compliant Corporations or a Business Decision Support for Sustainability Leaders?; Stefan Schaltegger and Roger Burritt.- 3. Towards a Monetised Triple Bottom Line for an Alcohol Producer. Using Stakeholder Dialogue to Negotiate a 'Licence to Operate' by Constructing an Account of Social Performance; David Bent.- 4. Integrating Sustainability into Traditional Financial Analysis; Juan Pineiro Chousa and Noelia Romero Castro.- 5. The Concept of Corporate Resource Efficiency Accounting. A Case Study in the Electronic Industry; Timo Busch, Christa Liedtke and Severin Beucker.- 6. Accounting for Health and Safety Costs. Review and Comparison of Selected Methods; Pall Rikhardsson.- 7. Implementing Standard Costing with an Aim to Guiding Behaviour in Sustainability Orientated Organisations; Thomas Heupel.- Part II Linking Environmental and Sustainability Accounting with Economic Success.- 8. Achieving Environmental-Economic Sustainability through Corporate Environmental Strategies. Empirical Evidence on Environmental Shareholder Value; Marcus Wagner.- 9. The Impact of Carbon Constraints on Competitiveness and Value Creation in the Automotive Industry; Niki Nikolaus Rosinski.- 10. Traditional Accounting Return Ratios and Business Sustainability. An Incompatible Relationship in the Context of Greek Strategic Business Units; Benjamin Karatzoglou.- 11. Is there a Market Payoff forBeing Green at the Lima Stock Exchange?; Samuel Mongrut Montalvan and Jesus Tong Chang.- 12. Integrating and Reporting an Organisation's Economic, Social and Environmental Performance. The Expanded Value Added Statement; Laurie Mook.- Part III Reporting External Accounting Frameworks and Benchmarking.- 13. Corporate Sustainability Reporting. An Overview; Christian Herzig and Stefan Schaltegger.- 14. Taking the GRI to Scale. Towards the Next Generation of Sustainability Reporting Guidelines; Ralph Thurm.- 15. The JEPIX Initiative in Japan. A New Ecological Accounting System for a Better Measurement of Eco-Efficiency; Nobuyuki Miyazaki.- 16. The Green-Budget Matrix Model. Theory and Cases in Japanese Companies; Yoshihiro Ito, Hiroyuki Yagi and Akira Omori.- 17. Quality of Physical Environmental Management Accounting Information. Lessons from Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers; Roger Burritt and Chika Saka.- 18. Benchmarking Environmental Performance in the English University Sector. The Experience of the Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) Project; Martin Bennett, Peter Hopkinson and Peter James.- Part IV National Experiences and Developments in Environmental and Sustainability Accounting.- 19. Environmental Management Accounting in Czech Companies that have Implemented Environmental Management Systems; Jaroslava Hyr lova and Miroslav Hajek.- 20. Corporate Environmental Accounting and Reporting in China. Current Status and the Future; Hua Xiao.- 21. Development of Corporate Environmental Accounting in Korea. Case Studies and Policy Implications; Byung-Wook Lee, Seung-Tae Jung and Jeong-Heui Kim.- 22. Understanding"Publisher Marketing: 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 - tween corporate environmental and sustainability issues as well as between strategy, measurement and information management or between accounting and reporting. For the last five years EMAN, the environmental and sustainability - counting network, has developed from a small, dedicated group of European academics to a full-fledged international network with strong links to cor- rate accounting and reporting practitioners, international organizations and regulators. The network provides a platform for the exchange of ideas and the sharing of experiences with environmental and sustainability accounting and reporting. EMAN Global (www.eman-global.net) serves as an - brella organisation of the regional sections in the Asia Pacific (EMAN-AP), Europe (EMAN-EU), Americas (EMAN-AM) and Africa (EMAN-AF). Based on the success of the annual conferences of the European and Asia Pacific sections the American and African groups are planning their first workshops. The regional sections of EMAN have their own independent work agendas but are linked with each other through the steering committee of EMAN GLOBAL and by participating in other regional conferences, fora and workshops."

Contributor Bio:  Bennett, Martin Martin Bennett - editor of the Rolls-Royce Owners' Club of Australia's journal Praeclarum from 1984 to 2004, and editor of the Sir Henry Royce Foundation of Australia's Foundation Bulletin - has owned many Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars and has extensive driving experience of most models, from 1905 to the present. Gloucestershire-born, he now lives in Australia.