Environmental and social disclosure and data richness in the mining industry

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 131-146

  Peck, Philip ^a   Sinding, Knud ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MINING INDUSTRY; SELF GOVERNMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

EID: 0037644841     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.358     Document Type: Article

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