Mapping the terrain of sustainability and accounting for sustainability: Sustainability Accounting and Accountability

Ian Thomson

doi:10.4324/9781315848419

Mapping the terrain of sustainability and accounting for sustainability: Sustainability Accounting and Accountability

Ian Thomson

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Abstract

Sustainable accounting research should contribute towards sustainable transformation and reducing societies’ negative sustainability impact on our planet. Accounting-sustainability research should produce and communicate knowledge that points the way to a sustainable future. Accounting-sustainability research should critically: confront the unsustainable way the world is; create new accounting knowledge, processes and practices; and problematize, disrupt and engage constructively with transformation processes. The ‘so-what’ question for accounting-sustainability research articles should be: how does this article help with the resolution of the urgent and wicked problems faced by society?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sustainability Accounting and Accountability
Editors	Jan Bebbington, Brendan O'Dwyer, Jeffrey Unerman
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	2
Pages	15-29
Number of pages	15
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-315-84841-9
ISBN (Print)	978-0-415-69558-9, 978-0-415-69557-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315848419
Publication status	Published - 5 Jun 2014

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