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Sumit Lodhia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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accountants responses to the Environmental Agenda in a developing nation an initial and exploratory study on fiji
Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2003Co-Authors: Sumit LodhiaAbstract:Abstract This paper initially highlights the potential role(s) of accountants in ensuring Environmental sensitivity in businesses through the mechanism commonly referred to as Environmental accounting. It then proceeds to discuss their actual involvement in these issues through a review of past literature on the role of accountants in Environmental management accounting and reporting in organizations and the presentation of a local study on Environmental accounting. This study seeks to gain insights into the preparedness of accountants in Fiji to handle Environmental accounting within the conventional accounting framework. The findings of this research are reflective of contemporary international studies, suggesting that Fiji accountants are conspicuously absent from Environmental management accounting and reporting in organizations. This has been attributed to their lack of competence in Environmental matters and the voluntary nature of the present Environmental accounting practice. Even though the characteristics of a developing nation which pose practical difficulties for the implementation of Environmental accounting in a country like Fiji need to be acknowledged, a more proactive stance from the local accountancy profession, academics, the private and public sector is warranted. It is envisaged that this initial research will add to the limited literature on Environmental accounting in developing nations and provide a useful framework for further studies, especially those in the South Pacific context.
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accountants responses to the Environmental Agenda in a developing nation an initial and exploratory study on fiji
Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2003Co-Authors: Sumit LodhiaAbstract:Abstract This paper initially highlights the potential role(s) of accountants in ensuring Environmental sensitivity in businesses through the mechanism commonly referred to as Environmental accounting. It then proceeds to discuss their actual involvement in these issues through a review of past literature on the role of accountants in Environmental management accounting and reporting in organizations and the presentation of a local study on Environmental accounting. This study seeks to gain insights into the preparedness of accountants in Fiji to handle Environmental accounting within the conventional accounting framework. The findings of this research are reflective of contemporary international studies, suggesting that Fiji accountants are conspicuously absent from Environmental management accounting and reporting in organizations. This has been attributed to their lack of competence in Environmental matters and the voluntary nature of the present Environmental accounting practice. Even though the characteristics of a developing nation which pose practical difficulties for the implementation of Environmental accounting in a country like Fiji need to be acknowledged, a more proactive stance from the local accountancy profession, academics, the private and public sector is warranted. It is envisaged that this initial research will add to the limited literature on Environmental accounting in developing nations and provide a useful framework for further studies, especially those in the South Pacific context.
Gert De Roo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards Liveable Cities: Progress in the European Union Urban Environmental Agenda
European Planning Studies, 2009Co-Authors: Christian Zuidema, Gert De RooAbstract:The 2006 “Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment” is the first piece of official European Union (EU) policy solely focused on the urban environment. It follows a process of several years in which the EU has tried to promote an integrated approach to urban management. During the 2005–2007 “Liveable Cities” project, reflection was given to the “Thematic Strategy”. This resulted in important critiques on the EU's approach to the urban environment. Explaining how the initial top-down approach chosen by the EU contributed to the perceived “failure” of the “Thematic Strategy”, suggestions are made for alternative approaches to the creation of liveable cities in Europe.
Christian Zuidema - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards Liveable Cities: Progress in the European Union Urban Environmental Agenda
European Planning Studies, 2009Co-Authors: Christian Zuidema, Gert De RooAbstract:The 2006 “Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment” is the first piece of official European Union (EU) policy solely focused on the urban environment. It follows a process of several years in which the EU has tried to promote an integrated approach to urban management. During the 2005–2007 “Liveable Cities” project, reflection was given to the “Thematic Strategy”. This resulted in important critiques on the EU's approach to the urban environment. Explaining how the initial top-down approach chosen by the EU contributed to the perceived “failure” of the “Thematic Strategy”, suggestions are made for alternative approaches to the creation of liveable cities in Europe.
Anél Du Plessis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The 'Brown' Environmental Agenda and the Constitutional Duties of Local Government in South Africa: A Conceptual Introduction
Social Science Research Network, 2015Co-Authors: Anél Du PlessisAbstract:This note explores the interrelationship between ecologically sustainable development (the green Environmental Agenda) and pro-poor urban development and Environmental health (the brown Environmental Agenda) in relation to local government in South Africa. The meaning and relevance of the brown Agenda versus the green Agenda in Environmental governance are discussed in general. This discussion subsequently feeds into the argument that South Africa's constitutional Environmental right also foresees the advancement of the brown Environmental Agenda, which has implications for the interpretation and enforcement of local government's service delivery mandate. This link between municipal service delivery and the Environmental right further informs understanding of what is required of government to fulfill this right. This paper is thus devoted to an introductory conceptual framing of South Africa's Environmental right that goes beyond the green Agenda. This impacts on how the constitutional duties of municipalities are interpreted and executed.
Peter Brand - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the environment and postmodern spatial consciousness a sociology of urban Environmental Agendas
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1999Co-Authors: Peter BrandAbstract:Planning generally views the environment as an objectively definable set of natural resource systems and relies on the natural sciences to reveal and describe its problems, such as pollution, loss of biodiversity, energy consumption or waste disposal. But why do the mass of people with little scientific knowledge or interest in the environment as a 'big issue' accept and even contentiously push forward planning's Environmental Agenda? This paper explores the sociological basis of Environmental concern. It argues that the social dilemmas arising from the contemporary experience of space are drawn towards the environment and that it is this non-ecological, non-expert field of preoccupations which both legitimizes the Environmental turn of contemporary planning and provides the real impetus behind Environmental issues.