Environmental Accounting

Environmental accounting is an accounting methodology that incorporates environmental costs and impacts into an organization's financial records and reporting to measure and disclose the environmental consequences of its operations.

3.6K

Publications

279.6K

Citations

7.6K

Authors

2.5K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

1.6K

Variants

Green Accounting

Parents

Accounting

Children

BiodiversityCarbon AccountingDisclosureEcological Footprint AccountingEnergy AccountingEnvironmental AuditEnvironmental Management AccountingEnvironmental Performance MeasurementEnvironmental ReportingEnvironmental Tax Accounting

Publications

3.6K

Revisiting the relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: An empirical analysis

Peter Clarkson, Yue Li, Gordon D. Richardson et al. · Accounting Organizations and Society · 2007 · 3.2K citations

Business, Accountancy, Accounting +17

Environmental accounting: EMERGY and environmental decision making

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 2.1K citations

Business, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy +16

Performance measures and metrics in a supply chain environment

A. Gunasekaran, Chaitali Patel · International Journal of Operations & Production Management · 2001 · 2K citations

Management, Environmental Management, Supply Chain Management +15

The role of environmental disclosures as tools of legitimacy: A research note

Charles H. Cho, Dennis M. Patten · Accounting Organizations and Society · 2006 · 2K citations · Full text

Business, Corporate Governance, Environmental Social Science +14

The relations among environmental disclosure, environmental performance, and economic performance: a simultaneous equations approach

Sulaiman Al-Tuwaijri, Theodore E. Christensen, Kate Hughes · Accounting Organizations and Society · 2003 · 1.9K citations

Management, Environmental Management, Strategic Management +17

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Authors

7.6K

RB
Roger Burritt
University of South Australia, Australia
37 publications · 5.1K citations
28
h-index
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Stefan Schaltegger
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
34 publications · 5K citations
25
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JB
Jan Bebbington
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
34 publications · 5.6K citations
25
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RG
Rob Gray
Arizona State University, United States
28 publications · 6.8K citations
22
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CL
Carlos Larrínaga
Universidad de Burgos, Spain
19 publications · 2.7K citations
17
h-index

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Institutions

2.5K

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Venues

Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
113 publications · 21K citations
75
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Journal of Cleaner Production
173 publications · 17.2K citations
73
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Business Strategy and the Environment
BSE · 97 publications · 11.5K citations
61
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Critical Perspectives on Accounting
51 publications · 5.3K citations
38
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Accounting Forum
55 publications · 4.7K citations
36
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See also Environmental Accounting
Core Methods	Environmental Management Accounting Input-output Analysis Environmental Cost Analysis
Applications	Environmental Impact Assessment Integrated Reporting Sustainability Reporting Esg Reporting Environmental Cost Analysis Strategic Planning Regulatory Compliance Lifecycle Costing Clean Technology Investment Environmental Disclosure Liability Capital Allocation
Reporting Standards	Sustainability Reporting Global Reporting Initiative Reporting Task Force On Climate-related Financial Disclosures Reporting International Financial Reporting Standards Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Convergence
Metrics	Environmental Costs Greenhouse Gas Emissions Environmental Remediation Liabilities Resource Depletion Energy Efficiency Economics Waste Generation Biodiversity Impacts
Limitations	Semantic Divergence Environmental Health Impact Valuation