Sustainability ethics and metrics: Strategies for damage control and prevention

Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-24

  Lior, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Greenwashing; Sustainability; Sustainability ethics; Sustainability metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015428244     PISSN: 23256192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5890/JEAM.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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