Sustainability Accounting and Accountability (Hardcover)

Introduction to Sustainability Accounting and Accountability  Section A: Setting the Context for Sustainability Accounting and Accountability  1. Mapping the Terrain of Sustainability Accounting  2. Legitimating the Social Accounting Project: An Ethic of Accountability  Section B: External Reporting of Sustainability Policies and Practices  3. Histories of and Rationales for Sustainability Reporting  4. The ‘Standardization’ of Sustainability Reporting  5. Stakeholder Engagement and Dialogue  6. External Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Sustainability Reporting  7. Organizational Legitimacy as a Motive for Sustainability Reporting  8. Sustainability Reporting: Insights from Neo-Institutional Theory  9. Assurance Practice in Sustainability Reporting  10. Future Prospects for Corporate Sustainability Reporting  Section C: Accounting for Sustainable Development Within Organisations  11. Full Cost Accounting: Adam Smith Meets Rachel Carson?  12. Changing Organizational Attitudes and Culture Through Sustainability Accounting  13. Sustainability Accounting and Accountability in the Public Sector  14. Environmental and Social Assessment in Sustainable Finance  Section D: Other Issues  15. The Nature of NGO Accountability: Motives, Mechanisms and Practice  16. Developing Silent and Shadow Accounts  17. Sustainability Accounting and Education  18. Postscript and Conclusions