Accounting for the Environment: More Talk and Little Progress (Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management Book 5)

Advances in environmental accounting & management aims to enhance the understanding of global environmental issues, especially valuation and disclosure of environmental impact of firms' activities, encouraging management to improve firms' environmental performance and disclosures. The series also wants to make management, investors and other stakeholders aware of the potential financial and economic consequences of failure to address environmental issues. To achieve this, Advances in environmental accounting & management seeks to enable regulators to evaluate firms' environmental performance, increase public and managerial awareness of global concerns of environmental pollution, and encourage management to improve the environmental performance of their companies. Volume 5 of Advances in environmental accounting & management typifies these aims, addressing topics such as sustainability, environmental liabilities, social investing and global warming and accounting. Read more... An examination of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance : the case of Chinese state-owned enterprises / Robert W. Rutledge ... [et al.] -- Towards a more comprehensive framework for sustainability control systems research / Angelo Ditillo, Irene Eleonora Lisi -- Measuring environmental performance : is Newsweek's green ranking the solution? / Yu Cong, Martin Freedman, Jin Dong Park -- Corporate governance and environmental activity / Martin Stuebs, Jr., Li Sun -- SEC guidance on climate change risk disclosures : an assessment of firm and market responses / Joan DiSalvio, Nina T. Dorata Advances in Environmental Accounting and Management has three main objectives. First, it enhances understanding of global environmental issues, especially valuation and disclosure of environmental impacts of firms' activities. Second, it makes management, investors and other stakeholders aware of the financial and economic consequences of our failure to address the environmental issues. Third, it encourages management to improve the firm's environmental performance and disclosures. Volume 5 of Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to enhance the understanding of global environmental issues and encouraging management to improve their firm's environmental performance and disclosures. This volume includes topics such as sustainability, environmental liabilities and global warming and accounting