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This book explores the financial, business risk, ethical, cultural, and emotional rationales underlying the need for companies to actively protect, conserve and improve biodiversity within their sphere of operation.
List of contents
Part 1 Introduction 1. Accounting for Biodiversity: Rationale and Overview Michael Jones Part 2 Theoretical Framework 2. Creating a Theoretical Framework for Biodiversity Accounting Michael Jones 3. Ecosystem and Natural Inventory Biodiversity Frameworks Michael Jones 4. Accounting for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services from an EMA Perspective: Towards a Standardised Biodiversity Footprint Methodology Joël Houdet and Charles Germaneau 5. Full Cost Accounting: Integrating Biodiversity Jared Davies 6. Biodiversity and Regional Authorities: A Common-pool Resources and Accounting Perspective Jean Raar 7. Accounting for Biodiversity: A Deep Ecological Perspective Jack Christian Part 3 Practical Implications 8. Biodiversity, International Conventions, Government Strategy and Indications: The Case of the UK Ian Thomson 9. Biodiversity Accountability in Brazil: the Role of LIFE® Certification Regiane Borsato, José Thomaz Mendes Filho, Miguel Serediuk Milano, Anke Manuela Salzmann, Bianca Brasil, Maria Alice Alexandre, Maria de Lourdes Silva Nunes, Clóvis Borges and Marcelo Posonski 10. Forest Certification and Biodiversity Accounting in the Congo Basin Countries Charles Elad Part 4 Alternative Perspectives 11. Corporate Biodiversity Reporting: Exploring its Anthropocentric Nature Jill Atkins, Carmen Gräbsch and Michael Jones 12. Who Speaks for the River? Exploring Biodiversity Accounting using an Arena Approach Colin Dey and Shona Russell 13. Accounting for Biodiversity in 19th Century Britain: William Morris and the Defence of the Fairness of the Earth Jill Atkins and Ian Thomson 14. Conclusions Michael Jones
About the author
Michael Jones is Professor of Financial Reporting and Head of Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol, UK
Summary
This book explores the financial, business risk, ethical, cultural, and emotional rationales underlying the need for companies to actively protect, conserve and improve biodiversity within their sphere of operation.