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Title Accounting for sustainability : practical insights / edited by Anthony Hopwood, Jeffrey Unerman and Jessica Fries
Published London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 258 pages) : illustrations
Contents Dedication; Contents; Foreword; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction to the Accounting for Sustainability Case Studies; Chapter 2 The Prince's Accountingfor Sustainability Project: Creating 21st-Century Decision-Making and Reporting Systems to Respond to 21st-Century Challenges and Opportunities; Chapter 3 Sainsbury's: Embedding Sustainability within the Supermarket Supply Chain; Chapter 4 Using the Connected Reporting Framework as a Driver of Change within EDF Energy
Summary 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 organ
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Sustainable development reporting.
Environmental auditing.
Social accounting.
Sustainable development reporting -- Case studies
Environmental auditing -- Case studies
Social accounting -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
Environmental auditing
Social accounting
Sustainable development reporting
Hållbar utveckling -- redovisning.
Miljöredovisning.
Social redovisning.
Miljörevision.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Hopwood, Anthony G
Unerman, Jeffrey
Fries, Jessica
ISBN 9781849776332
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