Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forewords -- Klaus Töpfer, United Nations Environment Programme -- Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute -- Lise Kingo, Novo Nordisk -- María Emilia Correa, BCSD Colombia -- Introduction -- 1. Key Themes in Environmental, Social and Sustainability Performance Evaluation and Reporting -- Section 1: Evaluating Environmental Performance -- 2. ISO 14031 and the Future of Environmental Performance Evaluation -- 3. An Environmental Performance Measurement Framework for Business -- 4. Standardisation: The Next Chapter in Corporate Environmental Performance Evaluation and Reporting -- 5. Information Systems for Corporate Environmental Management Accounting and Performance Measurement -- 6. Ecobalancing in Austria: Its Use in SMEs and for Benchmarking -- 7. Ecobalance Analysis as a Managerial Tool at Kunert AG -- 8. Environmental Performance Evaluation and Reporting in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia's Programme for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) -- 9. Evaluating Corporate Environmental Performance in Developing Countries: TERI's Eco-Rating System -- 10. Measuring and Benchmarking Environmental Performance in the Electric Utility Sector: The Experience of Niagara Mohawk -- 11. A Weighted Environmental Indicator at Unox: An Advance towards Sustainable Development? -- 12. The Evolution of Integrated Environmental Performance Evaluation and Reporting at Baxter International -- 13. Evaluating the Whole-Life Environmental Performance of Products: A Comparison of Eco-Points, Eco-Compass and Eco-Costing Approaches -- Section 2: Reporting Environmental Performance -- 14. Towards a Generally Accepted Framework for Environmental Reporting -- 15. A Survey of Company Environmental Reporting: The 1997 Third International Benchmark Survey.

16. Statutory Environmental Reporting in Denmark: Status and Challenges -- 17. Reaching Consensus on the Implementation of Good Practice in Environmental Reporting: A Dutch NGO's Perspective -- 18. Environmental Reporting in Japan: Current Status and Implications of ISO 14001 and a Pollutant Release Inventory -- 19. South African Corporate Environmental Reporting: Contrasts with the Experience in Developed Countries -- 20. The Relationship between Company Environmental Reports and their Environmental Performance: A Study of the UK Water Industry -- 21. Internet-Based Environmental Reporting: Key Components -- 22. Sustainable Industrial Development: Benchmarking Environmental Policies and Reports -- Section 3: Social and Sustainability Performance Evaluation and Reporting -- 23. Sustainability Reporting Guidelines: Exposure Draft for Public Comment and Pilot-Testing -- 24. Signs of Sustainability: Measuring Corporate Environmental and Social Performance -- 25. Socially Challenged: Trends in Social Reporting -- 26. Social Reporting: Developing Theory and Current Practice -- 27. A New Deal for Sustainable Development in Business: Taking the Social Dimension Seriously at The Body Shop -- Bibliography -- Biographies -- Index.

This volume collects together some of the key work and individuals from around the world concerned with the topic of sustainable measures. Contributions include: environmental and social reporting; the GRI discussion draft; and the FEE study of environmental reporting.

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