Accounting for sustainability: practical insights

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Buckley, Ralf
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2011
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Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights . Hopwood, Anthony, Jeffery Unerman and Jessica Fries ( eds ). Earthscan , London , 2010 . xxvi + 258 pp. Price £25 (paperback). ISBN 978‐1‐84971‐067 . The back‐cover blurb claims that this compilation of eight case studies, all UK‐ or EU‐based, ‘show[s] in detail how accounting for sustainability works in practice’. In summary: not well. Contributions by 21 accountants, six of them professors, show that if this is the best that business can do, then accounting is not yet contributing much to sustainability, even with the imprimatur of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, ...
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Austral Ecology
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36
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7
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Author Posting. Copyright 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Austral Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 7, page e40, November 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02266.x
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Natural Resource Management
Tourism Management
Environmental Sciences
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