Sustainability Accounting and Reporting

This is the fourth in a series of books publishing the best contributions on environmental management accounting (EMA) from around the world. It has been developed by the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN). Contributions are drawn primaril

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ECO-EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE VOLUME 21 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

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting Edited by

Stefan Schaltegger Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM), University of Lüneburg, Germany

Martin Bennett University of Gloucestershire Business School, Cheltenham, UK

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Roger Burritt School of Commerce, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-4020-4973-0 (PB) 978-1-4020-4973-6 (PB) 1-4020-4079-2 (HB) 978-1-4020-4079-5 (HB) 1-4020-4974-9 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4974-3 ( e-book)

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CONTENTS Preface

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1 Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: Development, Linkages and Reflection. An Introduction Stefan Schaltegger, Martin Bennett and Roger Burritt

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PART I CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS OF SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNTING TOOLS 2 Corporate Sustainability Accounting. A Catchphrase for Compliant Corporations or a Business Decision Support for Sustainability Leaders? Stefan Schaltegger and Roger Burritt 3 Towards a Monetised Triple Bottom Line for an Alcohol Producer. Using Stakeholder Dialogue to Negotiate a ‘Licence to Operate’ by Constructing an Account of Social Performance David Bent 4 Integrating Sustainability into Traditional Financial Analysis Juan Piñeiro Chousa and Noelia Romero Castro

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5 The Concept of Corporate Resource Efficiency Accounting. A Case Study in the Electronic Industry Timo Busch, Christa Liedtke and Severin Beucker

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6 Accounting for Health and Safety Costs. Review and Comparison of Selected Methods Pall Rikhardsson

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7 Implementing Standard Costing with an Aim to Guiding Behaviour in Sustainability Orientated Organisations Thomas Heupel

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vi PART II LINKING ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNTING WITH ECO