Business and the Environment: Practitioner
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Business and Environmental Accountability
by Lesley Grayson, Helen Woolston, and Joseph Tanega
Published August 1994
This practical guide provides a useful overview of the subject, surveying the environmental pressures facing businesses in the UK and abroad and indicating how companies able to demonstrate environmental accountability can gain a significant advantage in certain sectors and markets. The coverage also includes an examination of business attitudes and the willingness of companies to adopt environmental management systems.
This guide includes:
* the green challenge to business -- pressures on companies to become environmentally accountable,
* legislation and policy (UK and Europe),
* stewardship and accountability today, including surveys of business attitudes and current environmental reporting practice (UK and Europe),
* recent recommendations for change in accounting and reporting practice (UK and international), and
* the American experience.
This guide includes:
* the green challenge to business -- pressures on companies to become environmentally accountable,
* legislation and policy (UK and Europe),
* stewardship and accountability today, including surveys of business attitudes and current environmental reporting practice (UK and Europe),
* recent recommendations for change in accounting and reporting practice (UK and international), and
* the American experience.