Business and Environmental Accountability: An Overview and Guide to the Literature (Business & the Environment: Practitioner) - Softcover

Lesley Grayson; Helen Woolston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074871863X ISBN 13: 9780748718634

Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

This practical guide provides a useful overview of the subject, surveying the environmental pressures facing businesses in the UK and abroad and indicating how companies able to demonstrate environmental accountability can gain a significant advantage in certain sectors and markets. The coverage also includes an examination of business attitudes and the willingness of companies to adopt environmental management systems.This guide* the green challenge to business -- pressures on companies to become environmentally accountable,* legislation and policy (UK and Europe),* stewardship and accountability today, including surveys of business attitudes and current environmental reporting practice (UK and Europe),* recent recommendations for change in accounting and reporting practice (UK and international), and* the American experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074871863X
• ISBN 13: 9780748718634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 89
• Editor: Joseph Tanega