Includes bibliographical references (p. {397}-410) and index.

pt. 1. General concepts. The green bottom line / Martin Bennett and Peter James -- An introduction to environmental accounting as a business management tool : key concepts and terms / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Calculating the true profitability of pollution prevention / Stefan Schalteger and Kaspar Muller -- Integrating environmental impacts into capital investment decisions / Marc J. Epstein and Marie-Josee Roy -- Valuing potential environmental liabilities for managerial decision-making : a review of available techniques / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- The Italian method of environmental accounting? / Matteo Bartolomeo -- Environmental management accounting in the Netherlands / Jan Jaap Bouma -- Cost allocation : an active tool for environmental management accounting / Roger L. Burritt -- pt. 2. Empirical studies. Green ledgers : an overview / Daryl Ditz, Janet Ranganathan and R. Darryl Banks -- Environmental cost accounting for chemical and oil companies : a benchmarking study / David Shields and Miriam Heller -- Applying environmental accounting to electroplating operations : an in-depth analysis / Mark Haveman and Terry Foecke -- Reducing the uncertainty in environmental investments : integrating stakeholder values into corporate decisions / Graham Earl -- Shared savings and environmental management accounting : innovative chemical supply strategies / Thomas J. Bierma, Frank L. Waterstraat, and Joyce Ostrosky -- Environmental accounting in an investment analysis context : total cost assessment at a small lithographic printer / Edward D. Reiskin, Deborah E. Savage and David A. Miller -- pt. 3. Case studies. Making environmental management count : Baxter International's environmental financial statement / Martin Bennett and Peter James -- Full-cost accounting for decision-making at Ontario Hydro / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Environmental accounting at Sulzer Technology Corporation / Georg Schroeder and Matthias Winter -- Life-cycle costing and packaging at Xerox, Ltd. / Martin Bennet and Peter James -- The cost of waste at Zeneca / Martin Bennett and Peter James -- The road not taken : acting on "Beyond environmental compliance" in managerial decision-making / Timothy T. Greene -- pt. 4. Implementation. How to implement environment-related management accounting / Martin Bennet and Peter James.