The view is taken that the study of diverse cultures can contribute to the development of environmental accounting and reporting. The focus is upon seeking to articulate insights from three indigenous cultures: the Australian Aboriginal, the Maori and the Native American. These cultures, alive...

Discusses the arguments for teaching environmental accounting and provides a sample of teaching programmes which have been successfully introduced in Australian and overseas universities. Also includes a discussion of developments in tertiary education overseas, particularly the encouragement...

Addresses four key areas where environmental accounting is important to accountants in the profession: the position today ‐ some of the key issues that accountants are responding to, and how; the pressure for change ‐ why accountants need to be concerned, and some of the pressures for change;...

Corporate environmental benchmarking is difficult with the range and inconsistency of environmental information available, even from facilities within the same firm. Environmental management systems can assist firms in organizing internal corporate benchmarking efforts. They attempt to capture...

Evaluates media responses throughout Europe to environmental issues in the chemical and paper industries, such as emissions, waste reduction and paper recycling, particularly in the face of attacks by non‐governmental groups like Greenpeace. Asserts that quantifiable techniques are available...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give professionals, researchers and policy makers in Oman and the region understanding of the climate change implications for better planning. The likely impacts will cause serious damage to the economy of Oman which already suffers from aridity, soil...

This article reports on an international assessment to identify and discuss environmental issues that may affect the US Army’s transformation efforts. Many factors, such as new kinds of weapons, increasing demands on natural resources, urbanization and globalization, are making the planning of...