Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps to integrate a company's environmental and business interests, whereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reduci

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ECO-EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE VOLUME 9 Series Editor: Arnold Tukker, TNO-STB, Delft, The Netherlands Editorial Advisory Board: Martin Charter, Centre for Sustainable Design, The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham, United Kingdom John Ehrenfeld, International Society for Industrial Ecology, New Haven, U.S.A. Gjalt Huppes, Centre of Environmental Science, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Reid Lifset, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; New Haven, U.S.A. Theo de Bruijn, Center for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy (CSTM), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments Edited by

Martin Bennett University of Gloucestershire Business School, Cheltenham, U.K.

Jan Jaap Bouma Erasmus Centre for Sustainable Development and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Economics Faculty of the University of Ghent, Belgium

and

Teun Wolters ISCOM Institute for Sustainable Commodities, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Contents

Preface

vii–ix

1. The Development of Environmental Management Accounting: General Introduction and Critical Review M. Bennett, J.J. Bouma and T. Wolters

1–18

PART I OVERVIEWS

2. An Integrative Framework of Environmental Management Accounting R.L. Burritt, T. Hahn and S. Schaltegger

21–35

3. Environmental Management Accounting Metrics: Procedures and Principles C. Jasch

37–50

4. A Guideline for the Measurement and Reporting of Environmental Costs J.-D. Kim

51–65

5. Flow Cost Accounting, an Accounting Approach Based on the Actual Flows of Materials M. Strobel and C. Redmann

67–82

6. Resource-Efficiency Accounting T. Orbach and C. Liedtke

83–90

PART II INFORMATION SYSTEMS

7. Efficient Eco-Management Using ECO-lntegral – How to Save Costs and Natural Resources at the Same Time W. Scheide, S. Enzler and G. Dold 8. Materials Flow Management Based on Production Data from ERP Systems G. Jürgens 9. ‘Counting what Counts’ – Raising Transparency through Environmental Management Accounting at Siemens R.A. Thurm 10. The Danish Environmental Management Accounting Project: An Environmental Management Accounting Framework and Possible Integration into Corporate Information Systems P.M. Rikhardsson and L. Vedsø 11. Life Cycle Engineering H. Krasowski

93–111 113–122

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137–151 153–157

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