A review of environmental accounting practices in the Asian electronics industry

Author

Pascual, Oriol ; Boks, Casper

Author_Institution

Sch. of Ind. Design Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2004

fDate

10-13 May 2004

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

155

Abstract

It has been widely claimed by academia and practitioners that companies can obtain tangible economic benefits from implementing ecodesign practices. Also, understanding how to express the effects of environmentally related investments is perceived to be limited. Nevertheless, environmental accounting is becoming an increasingly important issue for measuring, managing, and interpreting environmentally related investments. This paper explores how Asian electronic companies currently do environmental accounting and discusses the perceived difficulty of calculating the economic effects of environmental activities.

Keywords

cost-benefit analysis; design for environment; electronics industry; Asian electronics industry; ecodesign economic benefits; ecodesign practices; environmental accounting practices; environmental activity economic effects; environmentally related investments; Business; Companies; Economic forecasting; Electronics industry; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Guidelines; Industrial economics; Investments; Profitability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 2004. Conference Record. 2004 IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8250-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.2004.1299705

Filename

1299705