Contemporary Environmental Accounting Issues Concepts and Practice Book

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 environmental accounting is necessary to understand the critical issues at stake, academic accountants will also find that the book provides a useful introduction to the topic. The goals of the book are to discuss and illustrate contemporary conceptual approaches to environmental accounting; to make readers aware of crucial controversial topics; and to offer practical examples of how the concepts have been applied throughout Europe, North America and Australia. In order to increase the usefulness of the book for relevant courses, each chapter concludes with a set of questions for review. This book is essential reading for all those who are interested in how environmental issues influence accounting.

Author Biography: Dr. Stefan Schaltegger was appointed a full Professor of Management and Business Economics at the University of Lneburg, Germany, in 1999. Between 1996 and 1998 he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Center of Economics and Management (WWZ) at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where in 1998 he became an Associate Professor of Business Administration. His research areas include corporate environmental accounting and environmental information management, sustainable finance, sustainable entrepreneuship, stakeholdermanagement, environmental and spatial economics and the integration of environmental management and economics. He also spent one year as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Roger Burritt, BA (Jt Hons.) (Lancaster, United Kingdom), M.Phil. (Oxford, United Kingdom), FCPA (Australia), CA (Australia), ACIB (London, United Kingdom), is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Commerce at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, where environmental and management accounting are his main areas of research and teaching. He is also the International Co-ordinator of the ANU's Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Accountability (APCEA) - a networking group for people with an interest in environmental accounting and accountability. APCEA has branches in Argentina, Australia, China, Japan and New Zealand.