TY - CHAP

T1 - Asia Pacific Perspectives on Accounting for Sustainability: An Introduction

AU - Lee, Ki-Hoon

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - The interplay between “accounting” and “sustainability” or “sustainable development” has spurred a long-standing debate among academics and practitioners alike for decades. During the last 25 years, networks like the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) and the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) have played a central role in building research capacity and promoting this research field. Within this topic, the number of publications and researchers has increased, and corporate and practitioner interest is growing continually, but key challenges are also increasing. On a global scale, most global environmental and social sustainability indicators show a negative trend, reflecting the ever-worsening state of our planet (e.g., IPCC 2014; WWF 2016; Sachs et al. 2017).

AB - The interplay between “accounting” and “sustainability” or “sustainable development” has spurred a long-standing debate among academics and practitioners alike for decades. During the last 25 years, networks like the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) and the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) have played a central role in building research capacity and promoting this research field. Within this topic, the number of publications and researchers has increased, and corporate and practitioner interest is growing continually, but key challenges are also increasing. On a global scale, most global environmental and social sustainability indicators show a negative trend, reflecting the ever-worsening state of our planet (e.g., IPCC 2014; WWF 2016; Sachs et al. 2017).

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - accounting for sustainability

KW - Sustainability Accounting

KW - Asia pacific

KW - Sustainability Accounting

KW - Asia pacific

KW - Accounting for Sustainability

UR - http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319708980

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-70899-7_1

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-70899-7_1

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-319-70898-0

T3 - Eco-efficiency in industry and science

SP - 1

EP - 8

BT - Accounting for Sustainability

A2 - Lee, Ki-Hoon

A2 - Schaltegger, Stefan

PB - Springer International Publishing AG

CY - Cham

ER -