Corporate sustainability reporting and the relations with evaluation and management frameworks: The Portuguese case

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 317-328

  Ramos, Tomás B ^a   Cecílio, Teresa ^a   Douglas, Calbert H ^b   Caeiro, Sandra ^a,c  

^a CENSE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Corporate sustainability; Environmental management systems; Environmental performance evaluation; Measurement and reporting; Portugal

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EMS); ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE; PORTUGAL; SUSTAINABILITY MEASUREMENTS; WORLD BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURVEYS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84878388844     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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