Handbook of Critical Environmental Accountability and Sustainability

Lehman, Glen; Palmer, Renée

Handbook of Critical Environmental Accountability and Sustainability

Edited by Glen Lehman and Renée Palmer

Abstract: The Handbook of Critical Environmental Accountability and Sustainability broadens our understanding of how business and the natural environment interact, assessing how market and trading mechanisms can be used to manage this significant relationship. It highlights international perspectives on sustainability as well as the varied applications of environmental accounting theory.

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Nature; Environmental Ethics; Critical Accounting; Reform Accounting; Counter Accounting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781802201765
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction to the Handbook of Critical Environmental Accountability and Sustainability: Glen Lehman and Renée Palmer
Early work in environmental accounting: Renée Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman
Background and global context: Gordon Boyce, Renée Palmer and Glen Lehman
Global and international perspectives on sustainability: Renée Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman
Extending accounting through John Rawls's political liberalism to the natural environment: Renée Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman
Early critical theory work on environmental accounting: environmental accounting as instrumental or emancipatory discourse: Renée Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman
Legal aspects of environmental accounting: the greening of accounts: Fraser Bell, Renée Palmer and Gordon Boyce
From the Brundtland Report to the Global Reporting Initiative: Renée Palmer, Gordon Boyce and Glen Lehman
Accountability, sustainability and the art of interpretation: Glen Lehman
Evaluating the integrated thinking research journey: Dusan Ecim and Warren Maroun
Corporate socio-economic activity and sustainability: towards a working model considering finance, governance and accounting together: Michel Aglietta, Nihel Chabrak, Jim Haslam and Jacques Richard
Critical theory, environmental accounting frameworks, the business case, global sustainable reporting: Andrea Brunt, Glen Lehman and andRenée Palmer
Interpretive perspectives on the business case and neoliberal accounting: Renée Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman
Žižek, environment, crisis, governance (and accounting): Mengyuan Feng and Jim Haslam
Accounting, nature and the common good: Sheila Killian and Philip O’Regan
Accountability, closeness and environmental transparency: Renée Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman
Environmental accounting: accounting as instrumental or emancipatory discourse: Renée Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman
Understanding depth experiences: fullness and dearth as a prelude to moving from closed-world thinking to open-world environmental accounting: Renée Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman
Accounting, secularity and the natural environment: accounting for a disenchanted world: Rénee Palmer, Andrea Brunt and Glen Lehman
Accounting and environmentalism: developing a schema to appreciate academic research about the needed impact: Jim Haslam, Lina Kloviene and Marie-Theresa Speziale
Reclaiming the public sphere: possibilities and problems for corporate social and environmental accounting: Glen Lehman
Conclusions: global accountability, sustainability – research prospects: Glen Lehman
Tax, society and the environment: Jawad Harb and Elizabeth Morton
Management accounting and sustainability: Venkateshwaran Narayanan
The ‘social’ dimension of sustainability: the role of accounts in making well-being visible: Ana Tortosa Rey-Stolle, Laura Mazzola and Massimo Contrafatto
Gender and the accountability agenda in the Sustainable Development Goals: non-inclusive accounting of female ‘invisible’ farmers or producers: Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
Asbestos and environmental issues: Lee Moerman and Sandra van der Laan
Silent, shadow and counter accounting: Gordon Boyce
Counter accounting: Helen Tregidga, Michelle Rodrigue and Matias Laine
Accounting's great retreat: decline of the public sphere and the malaise of reform accounting: Glen Lehman
Environment: the importance of accounting for biodiversity: Michael John Jones
A tiger cub in Berkeley Square: a utop(dystop?)-ian account of rewilding and de-extinction: Jill Frances Atkins and Barry Atkins
Assessing the potential of the Biological Diversity Protocol to expand the accounting discourse within the mining sector of Madagascar: Gareth Chapman
Integrating rewilding and de-extinction into the extinction accounting framework: Jill Frances Atkins and Warren and Maroun
Emotion and compassion as a KPI in the extinction accounting framework: compassionate rewilding as a core conservation element: Mira Lieberman
Social imaginaries, part I: global social imaginaries – the background: Glen Lehman
Social imaginaries, part II: for environmental accounting – situating the social imaginary in a tentative pedagogic categorisation: Glen Lehman and Renée Palmer
Social imaginaries, part III: from subversive to interpretivist environmental imaginaries: Glen Lehman, Renée Palmer and Patricia Walford
Social imaginaries: critical imaginaries and Habermas-inspired environmental accounting: Glen Lehman, Renée Palmer and Patricia Walford
Deflationary realism: social imaginaries, evaluative frameworks and the natural environment: Glen Lehman, Renée Palmer and Patricia Walford
Social imaginaries in a transnational environment: Glen Lehman and Patricia Walford
Social imaginaries, accounting, accountability and the role of the state: Glen Lehman and Patricia Walford
Conclusion to the Handbook of Critical Environmental Accountability and Sustainability: Glen Lehman

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