Handbook of critical environmental accountability and sustainability / edited by Glen Lehman (UniSA Business School, University of South Australia), Ren�ee Palmer (University of Adelaide, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lehman, Glen, editor.

Palmer, Ren�ee, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental auditing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Environmental auditing.

Environmental economics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Environmental economics.

Sustainable development--Accounting--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Sustainable development.

Environmental policy--Economic aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Environmental policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"The Handbook of Critical Environmental Accountability and Sustainability broadens our understanding of how business and the natural environment interact, assessing how market and trading mechanisms can be used to manage this significant relationship. It highlights international perspectives on sustainability as well as the varied applications of environmental accounting theory. Expert authors explore topics including the limits of growth, cultural associations and nature, feminist theorising, and the role sport plays in diverse cultures. They provide in-depth critical analysis of dominant theories shaping environmental accounting and examine recent work on the connections between environmental and social imaginaries. Chapters shed light on hermeneutics, interpretivism and critical theory to reveal nature's meaning in current debates, using an economic and financial lens to define corporate social responsibility and underline the importance of climate action to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This Handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students of environmental accounting and management, as well as business and environmental studies. It is also a beneficial read for general environmental theorists in business, government and education due to its discussion of the interplay between accounting, environmental accountability and governance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword: Accountability, philosophy and the natural environment

Introduction to the handbook of critical environmental accountability and sustainability

Part I: Early accountability and sustainability research

1. Early work in environmental accounting / Ren�ee Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman

2. Background and global context / Gordon Boyce, Ren�ee Palmer and Glen Lehman

3. Global and international perspectives on sustainability / Ren�ee Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman

4. Extending accounting through john rawls's political liberalism to the natural environment / Ren�ee Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman

5. Early critical theory work on environmental accounting: Environmental accounting as instrumental or emancipatory discourse / Ren�ee Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman

6. Legal aspects of environmental accounting: The greening of accounts / Fraser Bell, Ren�ee Palmer and Gordon Boyce

7. From the brundtland report to the global reporting initiative / Ren�ee Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman

8. Accountability, sustainability and the art of interpretation / Glen Lehman

Part II: Theoretical approaches for environmental accounting, accountability and governance

9. Evaluating the integrated thinking research journey / Dusan Ecim and Warren Maroun

10. Corporate socio-economic activity and sustainability: Towards a working model considering finance, governance and accounting together / Michel Aglietta, Nihel Chabrak, Jim Haslam and Jacques Richard

11. Critical theory, environmental accounting frameworks, the business case, global sustainable reporting / Andrea Brunt, Glen Lehman and Ren�ee Palmer

12. Interpretive perspectives on the business case and neoliberal accounting / Ren�ee Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman

13. �IEK, environment, crisis, governance (and accounting) / Mengyuan Feng and Jim Haslam

14. Accounting, nature and the common good / Sheila Killian and Philip O'Regan

15. Accountability, closeness and environmental transparency / Ren�ee Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman

16. Environmental accounting: Accounting as instrumental or emancipatory discourse / Ren�ee Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman

17. Understanding depth experiences: Fullness and dearth as a prelude to moving from closed-world thinking to open-world environmental accounting / Ren�ee Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman

18. Accounting, secularity and the natural environment: Accounting for a disenchanted world / Ren�ee Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman

19. Accounting and environmentalism: Developing a schema to appreciate academic research about the needed impact / Jim Haslam, Lina Kloviene and Marie-Theresa Speziale

20. Reclaiming the public sphere: Possibilities and problems for corporate social and environmental accounting / Glen Lehman

21. Conclusions: Global accountability, sustainability - research prospects / Glen Lehman

Part III: Applying environmental accounting theory

22. Tax, society and the environment / Jawad Harb and Elizabeth Morton

23. Management accounting and sustainability / Venkateshwaran Narayanan

24. The 'social' dimension of sustainability: The role of accounts in making well-being visible

25. Gender and the accountability agenda in the sustainable development goals: Non-inclusive accounting of female 'invisible' farmers or producers / Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

26. Asbestos and environmental issues lee moerman and sandra van der laan

27. Silent, shadow and counter accounting / Gordon Boyce

28. Counter accounting / Helen Tregidga, Michelle Rodrigue and Matias Laine

29. Accounting's great retreat: Decline of the public sphere and the malaise of reform accounting / Glen Lehman

Part IV: Extinction accounting

30. Environment: The importance of accounting biodiversity / Michael John Jones

31. A tiger cub in berkeley square: A utop(dystop?)-ian account of rewilding and de-extinction / Jill Frances Atkins and Barry Atkins

32. Assessing the potential of the biological diversity protocol to expand the accounting discourse within the mining sector of madagascar / Gareth Chapman

33. Integrating rewilding and de-extinction into the extinction accounting framework / Jill Frances Atkins and Warren Maroun

34. Emotion and compassion as a kpi in the extinction accounting framework: Compassionate rewilding as a core conservation element / Mira Lieberman

Part V: Planetary boundaries, cosmic orders and social imaginaries

35. Social imaginaries, Part I: Global social imaginaries - the background / Glen Lehman

36. Some social imaginaries, Part II: For environmental accounting - situating the social imaginary in a tentative pedagogic categorisation / Glen Lehman and Ren�ee Palmer

37. Social imaginaries, Part III: From subversive to interpretivist environmental imaginaries / Glen Lehman, Ren�ee Palmer and Patricia Walford

38. Social imaginaries: Critical imaginaries and habermas-inspired environmental accounting / Glen Lehman, Ren�ee Palmer and Patricia Walford

39. Deflationary realism: Social imaginaries, evaluative frameworks and the natural environment / Glen Lehman, Ren�ee Palmer and Patricia Walford

40. Social imaginaries in a transnational environment / Glen Lehman and Patricia Walford

41. Social imaginaries, accounting, accountability and the role of the state / Glen Lehman and Patricia Walford

42. Conclusion to the handbook of critical environmental accountability and sustainability / Glen Lehman

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781802201772 (e-book)

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