Accounting for Carbon: The Role of Accounting Professional Organisations in Governing Climate Change

The New Carbon Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 107-133

  Lovell, Heather ^a   Mackenzie, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"gap" in professional governance; Carbon, financial accounting; CIMA's report; Epistemic community; EU ETS, accounting for carbon; Foucauldian governmentality approach; Governance of climate change; National, international agendas; Role in social processes; UK Nuffield Foundation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888754284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118315835.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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