Environmental Management, Measurement, and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control?

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Buhr, Nola ^a   Gray, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental accounting; Environmental management accounting; Environmental management systems; Full cost accounting; Management control systems; Natural environment; Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924857269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199584451.003.0023     Document Type: Chapter

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