Contemporary Environmental Accounting

DR STEFAN SCHALTEGGER is Professor of Management and Business Economics at the University of Lueneburg, Germany. ROGER BURRITT is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Commerce at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.

... as a reference text and as a text to stimulate and to prompt us into other ways of thinking, this book is a really substantial addition to the literature and deserves very serious attention.

• ForewordJohn Elkington, Chair, SustainAbility Ltd ForewordSusan McLaughlin, US Environmental Protection Agency ForewordPatrick Ponting FCPA, National President, Australian Society of CPAs ForewordDr Claude Martin, Director General, WWF International ForewordStig Enevoldsen, Chairman, International Accounting Standards Committee1. Purpose and structure Part 1: Introduction and framework2. The emergence of environmental accounting3. The purpose of managing environmental information4. The environmental accounting framework Part 2: Environmental issues in conventional accounting5. Overview, criticism and advantages of conventional accounting6. Environmental management accounting7. Environmental issues in financial accounting and reporting8. Environmental shareholder value and environmental issues in other accounting systems Part 3: Ecological accounting9. Overview and emergence10. The efficiency of approaches to environmental information management11. Internal ecological accounting12. External ecological accounting and reporting of environmental impacts Part 4: Integration13. Integration with eco-efficiency indicators14. Integrating eco-efficiency-oriented information management into the corporate environmental management system15. Summary