Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal: Volume 1 Issue 1

A re‐evaluation of social, environmental and sustainability accounting: An exploration of an emerging trans‐disciplinary field?

In responding to prior critiques, the paper seeks to re‐examine social accounting as a problem focused, multi‐disciplinary field and explores some of the possible directions the…

Market reactions to the first‐time issuance of corporate sustainability reports: Evidence that quality matters

The paper attempts to determine whether market participants see value in the corporate choice to begin publishing a standalone sustainability report. It also seeks to investigate…

Human rights and corporate social responsibility: Parallel processes and global opportunities for states, corporations, and NGOs

The paper seeks to explore how globalization processes have shaped the nature, scope, and time frame of considerations of social responsibility and the development of a corporate…

Constructing strategies for sustainable development the communitarian way

The paper aims to draw on recommendations of Agenda 21 and communitarian theory to examine collaboration between local district community and local authorities to formulate…

Re‐visiting the world and co‐creating a future

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the rethinking what it means to be human and our relationship with the Earth.

It's (already) beginning to look a bit like Christmas

This paper aims to identify changes in regulatory requirements that will lead to improved transparency on sustainability and corporate responsibility issues and the impact this…

Greenhouse gas accounting: global problem, national policy, local fugitives

The purpose of this paper is to raise a selection of issues and questions that have begun to face academics and business professionals in the technically complex field of…

Economic catch‐up and emission reductions

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that spending on environmental protection will aid, rather than hamper, economic development which is itself sustainable. The paper…

ISO 26000: a standard for human rights?

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the issues in the development of ISO 26000 a new standard for social responsibility.

Nudge – Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness

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Measuring the impact of research

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Sustainability research in need of a multi-disciplinary approach and a practice and policy focus?

Special issue of the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal Sustainable decision making in a time of crisis: public and private perspectives