Description
The management and balancing of social, environmental and economic sustainability is one of the most complex and urgent challenges facing both private and public sector organizations today; with these challenges of sustainability posing many risks to, and many opportunities for, advancing the aims and performance of organizations. Accounting and accountability processes and practices provide key tools to help organizations to more effectively identify and manage the risks and opportunities of sustainability.
Popular features from the first edition are retained, whilst recent developments in theory and practice are accounted for. New substantive chapters on water resource accounting, carbon accounting, and decision making have been introduced and the book continues to benefit from a host of expert contributors from around the world, including Jesse Dillard, Rob Gray, Craig Deegan.
This comprehensive and authoritative textbook will continue to be a key resource for students of accounting and sustainability, as well as being a vital tool for researchers.
Table of Contents
Part I: Setting the context for sustainability accounting and accountability 1. Introduction 2. Mapping the terrain of sustainability and accounting for sustainability 3. Sustainability accounting and education Part II: Accounting techniques and sustainable development 4. Histories, rationales and future prospects for sustainability reporting: CSR, GRI, IIRC and Beyond 5. Independent assurance of sustainability reports 6. Stakeholder perspectives and engagement 7. Developing Silent and Shadow Accounts 8. Environmental and social assessment in sustainable finance 9. Organisational change and sustainability accounting Part III: Accounting for sustainable development in other organizational settings 10. The nature of NGO accountability 11. Sustainability accounting, reporting and management in the public sector Part IV: Accounting and biophysical concerns 12. Accounting and global climate change issues 13. Accounting for water resource use Part V: Conceptual interpretations of accounting for sustainable development 14. Philosophical underpinnings of sustainability and organizational accountability 15. Organisational legitimacy as a motive for sustainability reporting 16. Insights into sustainability reporting from institutional theory 17. Drawing to a close and future horizons
