Accountability, Philosophy and the Natural Environment

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.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

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

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