1st Edition
Corporate Environmental Reporting The Western Approach to Nature
Preface, Chapter 1 Western Environmental Discourse and the Corporate Report
Introduction
Background
Research Problem and Objectives
Outline of book
Summary
Chapter 2 Western Environmental Philosophy
Impacts of western environmental philosophy
The role of social construction
Western culture
A history
Western environmental philosophies
Intrinsic and instrumental values
Ecofeminism
Deep ecology
Aristotelian ethics
Fundamental issues in western environmental philosophy
Immanence
Interconnectivity
Dualism
Enlightenment thought
Modernism
Transcendence
Summary
Chapter 3 Corporate Reporting
Introduction
Social construction through accounting
Accounting as discourse
Accounting and sustainability reporting
Sustainability and environmental reporting
Corporate environmental reporting
Environmental reporting as stakeholder engagement
Accountability and transparency
A critical approach
Link to western environmental philosophies
Summary
Chapter 4 Operationalising Critique
Introduction
Methodology
A qualitative approach
A historical perspective
A critical approach
Critical discourse analysis
The discourse
Environmental reports
Written word
Images
Other discursive mechanisms
Interviews
Analysing the discourse
Metaphor
Ideology
Hegemony
Discourse groupings
Dualism
Ontology of discrete objects
Dualistic anthropocentrism
Dualistic hierarchy
Biography
Dr Leanne J Morrison is a lecturer at the RMIT School of Accounting, Melbourne, Australia.
