The Green Bottom Line

Abstract

Foreword: Susan McLaughlin, US EPA, William Blackburn, Baxter International, Ian Ash, BT Corporate Communications, Jan-Olaf Willums, Storebrand, Norway and Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel, UNEP IE Introduction: Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK Part One: General Concepts 1. The Green Bottom Line Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK 2. An Introduction to Environmental Accounting as a Business Management Tool: Key Concepts and Terms US Environmental Protection Agency 3. Calculating the True Profitability of Pollution Prevention Stefan Schaltegger, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Kaspar Mueller, Ellipson Ltd, Basel, Switzerland 4. Integrating Environmental Impacts into Capital Investment Decisions Marc J. Epstein, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, and Marie-Josee Roy, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and CIRANO, Canada 5. Valuing Potential Environmental Liabilities for Managerial Decision-Making: A Review of Available Techniques US Environmental Protection Agency 6. The Italian Method of Environmental Accounting Matteo Bartolomeo, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italy 7. Environmental Management Accounting in the Netherlands Jan Jaap Bouma, Erasmus Centre for Environmental Studies, Rotterdam, Netherlands 8. Cost Allocation: An Active Tool for Environmental Management Accounting? Roger L. Burritt, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Part Two: Empirical Studies 9. Green Ledgers: An Overview Daryl Ditz, Janet Ranganathan and R. Darryl Banks, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, USA 10. Environmental Cost Accounting for Chemical and Oil Companies: A Benchmarking Study David Shields, Beth Beloff and Miriam Heller, University of Houston, USA 11. Applying Environmental Accounting to Electroplating Operations: An In-Depth Analysis Mark Haveman and Terry Foecke, Waste Reduction Institute for Training and Applications Research, St Paul, MN, USA 12. Reducing the Uncertainty in Environmental Investments: Integrating Stakeholder Values into Corporate Decisions Graham Earl, Tuula Moilanen and Roland Clift, University of Surrey, UK 13. Shared Savings and Environmental Management Accounting: Innovative Chemical Supply Strategies Thomas J. Bierma, Frank L. Waterstraat and Joyce Ostrosky, Illinois State University, USA 14. Environmental Accounting in an Investment Analysis Context: Total Cost Assessment at a Small Lithographic Printer Edward D. Reiskin, Deborah E. Savage and David A. Miller, The Tellus Institute, Boston, MA, USA Part Three: Case Studies 15. Making Environmental Management Count: Baxter International's Environmental Financial Statement Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK 16. Full-Cost Accounting for Decision-Making at Ontario Hydro US Environmental Protection Agency 17. Environmental Accounting at Sulzer Technology Corporation Georg Schroeder, Sulzer Hydro, Zurich, Switzerland, and Matthias Winter, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland 18. Life-Cycle Costing and Packaging at Xerox Ltd Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK 19. The Cost of Waste at Zeneca Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK 20.The Road Not Taken: Acting on 'Beyond Environmental Compliance' in Managerial Decision-Making Timothy T. Greene, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Part Four: Implementation 21. Implementing Environment-Related Management Accounting Martin Bennett, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Peter James, Sustainable Business Centre, Congleton, UK