Sustainability Accounting and Accountability

Introduction to Sustainability Accounting and Accountability Section A: Setting the Context for Sustainability Accounting and Accountability 1. Mapping the Terrain of Sustainability Accounting 2. Legitimating the Social Accounting Project: An Ethic of Accountability Section B: External Reporting of Sustainability Policies and Practices 3. Histories of and Rationales for Sustainability Reporting 4. The 'Standardization' of Sustainability Reporting 5. Stakeholder Engagement and Dialogue 6. External Stakeholders' Perspectives on Sustainability Reporting 7. Organizational Legitimacy as a Motive for Sustainability Reporting 8. Sustainability Reporting: Insights from Neo-Institutional Theory 9. Assurance Practice in Sustainability Reporting 10. Future Prospects for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Section C: Accounting for Sustainable Development Within Organisations 11. Full Cost Accounting: Adam Smith Meets Rachel Carson? 12. Changing Organizational Attitudes and Culture Through Sustainability Accounting 13. Sustainability Accounting and Accountability in the Public Sector 14. Environmental and Social Assessment in Sustainable Finance Section D: Other Issues 15. The Nature of NGO Accountability: Motives, Mechanisms and Practice 16. Developing Silent and Shadow Accounts 17. Sustainability Accounting and Education 18. Postscript and Conclusions