Business and Environmental Accountability: An Overview and Guide To the Literature (Keynote Series) - Softcover

Grayson, Lesley; Woolston With, Helen; Tanega, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0946655820 ISBN 13: 9780946655823

Publisher: CRC Press, 1997

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 includes:
* 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: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0946655820
• ISBN 13: 9780946655823
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100