The carbon neutral public sector: Governmental accounting and action on climate change

Social Accounting and Public Management: Accountability for the Public Good

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 165-178

  Ball, Amanda ^a   Mason, Ian ^a   Grubnic, Suzana ^b   Hughes, Phil ^c   Birchall, S Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CH2M HILL   (United States)

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