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Holt, Robert A.

Greenleaf Pubns

Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice

Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written in order to provide an up-to-date textbook in the rapidly developing field of environmental accounting. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers, professional accountants, and corporate and organizational managers. Although no prior knowledge of environmental accounting is necessary to understand the critical issues at stake, academic accountants should also find that the book provides a useful introduction to the topic. The goals of the book are to discuss and illustrate contemporary conceptual approaches to environmental accounting; to make readers aware of crucial controversial topics; and to offer practical examples of how the concepts have been applied throughout Europe, North America and Australia. In order to increase the usefulness of the book for relevant courses, each chapter concludes with a set of questions for review. This book is relevant for all those who are interested in how environmental issues influence accounting.

Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues Concepts and Practice

Business & Money

Schaltegger, Stefan

Business Culture

There is a huge scarcity of good, practical resources for designers and students interested in minimizing the environmental impacts of products. "Design + Environment" has been specifically written to address this paucity. The book first provides background information to help the reader understand how and why design for environment (DfE) has become so critical to design, with reference to some of the most influential writers, designers and companies in the field. Next, "Design + Environment" provides a step-by-step approach on how to approach DfE: to design a product that meets requirements for quality, cost, manufacturability and consumer appeal, while at the same time minimizing environmental impacts. The first step in the process is to undertake an assessment of environmental impacts, using life-cycle assessment (LCA) or one of the many simpler tools available to help the designer. From then on, DfE becomes an integral part of the normal design process, including the development of concepts, design of prototypes, final design and development of marketing strategies. Environmental assessment tools and strategies to reduce environmental impacts, such as the selection of appropriate materials, are then discussed. Next, some of the links between environmental problems, such as global warming, ozone depletion, water and air pollution and the everyday products we consume are considered. In order to design products with minimal environmental impact, we need to have a basic understanding of these impacts and the interactions between them. The four subsequent chapters provide more detailed strategies and case studies for particular product groups: packaging, textiles, furniture, and electrical and electronic products. Guidelines are provided for each of the critical stages of a product's life, from the selection of raw materials through to strategies for recovery and recycling. Finally, "Design + Environment" takes a l

Design and Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods

Arts & Photography

Lewis, Helen

Graphic Design

Leaders and Laggards: Next-Generation Environmental Regulation

As consensus grows internationally that traditional command and control approaches to environmental regulation have borne much of their low hanging fruit, how do national environmental agencies decide which types of regulatory reinvention work and which don't? In a period of decreasing budgets for many agencies, the need to maximise the effectiveness of the regulatory dollar is critical if environmental well-being is to be improved. The authors of this book have discovered that there is a deep-seated international crisis in the evaluation of tools for next-generation environmental regulation such as economic instruments and voluntary agreements as agencies struggle with a lack of information about regulatory reform, of what works and what doesn't, and of how best to harness the resources of both government and non-government stakeholders. Progress is being impeded unnecessarily by a lack of shared knowledge of how similar agencies elsewhere are meeting similar challenges and by a lack of data on the success or otherwise of existing initiatives. Despite recent and valuable attempts to deal with such problems in the European Union and North America, these remain islands of wisdom in a sea of ignorance. For example, when it comes to dealing with small and medium-sized enterprises very little is known, and what is known is not effectively distilled and disseminated. Much the same could be said about the roles of third parties, commercial and non-commercial, as surrogate regulators, and more broadly of many current initiatives to reconfigure the regulatory state. Based on the author's work for the OECD, Victorian Environmental Protection Authority and the Western Australian Department of Environment Protection, "Leaders and Laggards" addresses these problems by identifying innovative regulatory best practice internationally in a number of specific contexts, evaluating empirically the effectiveness of regulatory reform

Gunningham, Neil

The authors are pro-business although not business-as-usual. The book is written first and foremost with the purpose of helping to improve business performance, because business is after all the principal motor for growth and development in the world today. The authors argue that companies adhering to best practice in CSR and taking advantage of possibilities inherent in "Corporate Social Opportunity" are good for shareholders as well as customers and employees.

Corporate Social Opportunity!: 7 Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility Work For Your Business

Grayson, David

Biography & History

Lost Was the Key is a nonfiction, autobiographical account of a CPA, wife, and mother whose middle-class, Southern-Baptist world was shattered by unwanted contact with extraterrestrials. When Leah Haley began to investigate the subject of "alien" contact, agencies of the U.S. government and/or military became so interested in her that they were willing to risk charges of burglary, kidnapping, and torture to learn what she knew and to silence her.

Lost Was the Key

Religion & Spirituality

Haley, Leah A.

New Age & Spirituality

Ceto, an alien, comes to Earth to make new friends, and after playing ball and shooting marbles with Annie and Seth, he takes them for a ride in his spaceship

Ceto's New Friends

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Visitors From Time: The Secret of the UFOs by Marc Davenport. New revised edition. A 20-year veteran of UFO research and former manufacturing engineer uses examples of close encounters to establish the hypothesis that UFOs use a technology so advanced that they can warp space-time. The most thoroughly documented book available concerning UFOs and time travel. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. ©1992, 1994, quality paperback, 275 pages, 6" x 9".

Visitors from Time: The Secret of the Ufos

Davenport, Marc

Reference

In Heaven is a book of humor that lets us escape from the massive weight of our everyday concerns and daydream about a more utopian existence. It lists just one attribute of the author’s idea of heaven on each page. Page one: "In heaven I can walk anywhere I want and never step in gum." A perfect gift book, especially for someone who could use a little cheer.

In Heaven

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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