Glen Lehman

Accountability, Philosophy and the Natural Environment (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach, this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and global political problems. When a social system has external elements imposed upon it, or presented to it, political problems are likely to emerge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000294095
• Artikelnr.: 61097205

Autorenporträt

Glen Lehman is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Accounting and Information System, University of South Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I. Critical accountability. 1. Key themes in
accountability research. 2. The art of interpretation and Nature. 3.
Markets, the business case, and interpretivism. 4. Postmodernism and
interpretivism: Basic issues. 5. The public sphere, corporations, and
society. 6. External relations: Re-engaging the company with the community
in which it operates. PART II: Philosophical perspectives. 7. Basic
concepts in accountability research: Key accountability theorists and
issues. 8. Basic issues in accountability: Interpretivism, openness, and
transparency. 9. Liberal accountability: Current environmental and social
challenges and policy. 10. Critical and radical accounting and
accountability: Basic philosophical issues in accountability research.
PART III. The environment. 11. Deep ecology and interpretivism. 12. Deep
Ecology, community and interpretation. 13. Perspectives on Deep Ecology:
Basic issues. 14. Deep Ecology and interpretation: Social Ecology and how
people relate to the world. 15. Perspectives on Nature: An environmental
values perspective. 16. New directions for environmental democracy
.