Environmental Reporting and Management in Africa

• Author : Venancio Tauringana
• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
• Release : 22 October 2019

Environment management and protection are top global priorities, but little is known about the reporting in regions of Africa. The six papers in this volume provide much needed information for academics, practitioners and policy makers about environmental accounting and management in Africa.

• Author : Venancio Tauringana
• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
• Release : 22 October 2019

Environment management and protection are top global priorities, but little is known about the reporting in regions of Africa. The six papers in this volume provide much needed information for academics, practitioners and policy makers about environmental accounting and management in Africa.

• Author : Godwell Nhamo,Ekpe Inyang
• Publisher : African Books Collective
• Release : 01 April 2011

The 21st century qualifies as one in which humanity raised environmental decay, especially climate change, as a key global concern requiring urgent political attention. The book Framework and Tools for Environmental Management in Africa is written from this perspective. It provides researchers from different disciplines including environmental sciences, engineering, commerce, planning, education, agriculture and law, as well as NGOs, government officials, policy makers and researchers, with a platform to engage with concerns relating to sustainable environmental management in this epoch.

• Author : Venancio Tauringana,Olayinka Moses
• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
• Release : 28 March 2022

Environmental Sustainability and Agenda 2030: Efforts, Progress & Prospects documents the status of environmental SDG implementation in the two developing blocs of BRICS and MINTS drawing attention to the progress of implementation at country and company levels, underscoring the urgent actions needed.

• Author : Jan Bebbington,Carlos Larrinaga,Brendan O'Dwyer,Ian Thomson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 31 March 2021

This handbook showcases the broad spectrum of diverse approaches to environmental accounting which have developed during the last 30 years across the globe. The volume covers a range of physical issues such as water, carbon and biodiversity, as well as specific accounting matters such as management control, finance and audit. Moreover, seven chapters present environmental accounting issues that arise in the regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, MENA, North America, the Pacific and South America. The handbook also highlights future challenges in

• Author : OECD
• Publisher : OECD Publishing
• Release : 03 December 2013

This report evaluates South Africa's progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on policies that provide incentives to protect South Africa's exceptionally rich biodiversity and promote more effective and efficient environmental management.

• Author : Hennie Smit
• Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
• Release : 31 March 2019

Contemporary Military Geosciences in South Africa presents the reader with chapters celebrating the scope, reach and impact of themes researched by military geoscientists. The first topics under investigation ranges from battlefield archaeology and battlefield tourism to military environmental management and the development of a unique South African spatial decision support system for military integrated environmental management. This is followed by an in-depth look at contemporary maritime factors at play in South Africa. The book is concluded by an analysis of

• Author : United Nations,United Nations Environment Programme,United Nations Dept,United Nations Environemnt Programme Staff,African Ministerial Conference on the Environment
• Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
• Release : 07 July 2022

This is the second comprehensive report on the state of Africa's environment, produced in collaboration with the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). This report highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, as well as its potential to achieve progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as an asset for the continent's development. It highlights the opportunities presented by the region's natural resource base to support

• Author : Lino Cinquini,Francesco De Luca (Professor of accounting)
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 07 July 2022

The increasingly crucial role of companies non-financial disclosure (NFD) and integrated reporting (IR) has led to a lively debate among academics, practitioners, and regulators on the approaches, framework, contents, principles, and standards that should oversee these forms of reporting. Through several expert contributions, conducted both with qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this book provides an up-to-date portrait of the debate by exploring corporate NFD either in its mandated contents or voluntary information. Contributing authors provide studies that encompass the different lines

• Author : Eric V. McDonald,Thomas Bullard
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 10 February 2016

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2011. The conference included discussion on a diverse range of geosciences, including military history, military geology, teaching geology from a military prospective, geological influence on the battlefield, and environmental and cultural issues related to management of military lands. Geology and geography have played a significant role in military history, from providing the stone for primitive tools and weapons, to the utilization

• Author : Stefan Schaltegger,Martin Bennett,Roger L. Burritt,Christine M. Jasch
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 10 October 2008

Sustainability requires companies to develop in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable manner. Corporate sustainable development in turn requires movement towards cleaner production. In order to recognize the potential from cleaner production – reduced costs and fewer environmental impacts through the reduced use of materials – environmental management accounting (EMA) is a necessary information management tool. Environmental Management Accounting for Cleaner Production reveals a set of tools for companies to collect, evaluate and interpret the information they need to estimate their potential

• Author : Laura Bini,Marco Bellucci
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 19 August 2019

This book proposes an integrated approach to sustainability reporting, the goal being to overcome certain limitations of the well-established additive approach, where the reporting of environmental, social and economic issues is sequential, but separate. It argues that, in order to successfully communicate its commitment to sustainability, a company should report on how environmental and social issues impact its way of doing business, namely its business model, contributing to value creation. Thus, a reporting framework for business models that encompasses sustainability

• Author : Charl de Villiers,Warren Maroun
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 03 November 2017

Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting deals with organizations’ assessment, articulation and disclosure of their social and environmental impact on various groups in society. There is increasingly an understanding that financial information does not sufficiently discharge organizational accountability to members of society who are demanding an account of the social and environmental impacts of companies’ and other organizations’ activities. As a result, organizations report ever more social and environmental information, and there are simultaneous movements towards providing the information in an

• Author : United Nations Environment Programme
• Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
• Release : 18 May 2007

This is a summary of UNEP's activities in 2006. The main purpose of UNEP is to encourage international co-operation in preserving and protecting the environment. This objective is developed alongside other United Nations departments and international governments by addressing issues such as climate change and sustainable development challenges. Environmental issues also tie into poverty reduction and the general development strategies as set out in the Millennium Development Goals. The theme of this particular annual report is change; climate change; energy change,

• Author : Martin Bennett,Peter James,Leon Klinkers
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 08 September 2017

Environmental and social performance measurement and reporting by business has become a high-profile issue during the 1990s. It is increasingly being requested by stakeholders and required by governments. Companies too are finding that they need better environmental and social performance data for effective internal management. And there are a growing number of standardisation initiatives – such as the ISO 14031 guidelines on environmental performance evaluation or the CERES Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) template for sustainability reporting – that are aimed at making it