| 1st Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) Global Conference South Africa 2007 |
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From Wednesday, 24 October 2007
To Friday, 26 October 2007
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| The Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) Africa in partnership with the Tshwane University of Technology’s Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Research Niche Area will host the 1st EMAN-Global Conference on Wednesday 24th – Friday 26th October 2007 at the CSIR International Convention Centre, Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.
Keynote speakers for the 1st EMAN-Global 2007 conference will include:
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger, Chair of Corporate Environmental Management, University of Lüneburg, Germany. He is the chair person of EMAN-Global and EMAN-Europe and editor of many journals and serves on the board of many organizations.
- Mr. Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero Works for the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DSD/UNDESA). He has been the driver of the development of EMA at the UN and led the UN EMA Expert Working Group from 1999 to 2005.
- Dr Christine Jasch is Director, Austrian Institute for Environmental Management & Economics, Vienna, Austria. She is the co-author of many EMA publications of the UN and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) international guidance document on EMA.
- Prof. Dr. Roger L. Burritt is Professor in Accounting, School of Commerce, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. He is a Fellow of CPA Australia, CMA and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Accountants in Australia.
- Professor Don Huisingh is a senior scientist in Sustainable Development in the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, U.S.A. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cleaner Production.
The keynote speeches will revolve around the integration of environmental management accounting with other environmental tools in support of sustainable development.
Theme of the conference:
Integrated Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) for Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. EMA incorporates and integrates two of the three building blocks of sustainable development – the environment and economics - as they relate to an organisation's internal decision-making. Meeting the needs of the future generation depends on how well economic, social, and environmental objectives of sustainable development are interconnected and balanced during current decision-making processes. EMA provides the economic rationale for organisational involvement in sustainable development.
Environmental management accounting serves as a mechanism for identifying and measuring the full spectrum of environmental costs of current production processes and the economic benefits of pollution prevention or cleaner processes, and to integrate these costs and benefits into day-to-day business decision-making.
The conference theme addresses the question of how organisations can integrate EMA with other environmental management tools (Cleaner Production, Environmental Management Systems, Risk Management, Sustainability Reporting and Audits) to achieve sustainable development. It seeks to and brings together an international and interdisciplinary audience to begin to tackle many of the issues connected with EMA and sustainable development - to share experiences and to begin to work towards solutions. By building informal partnerships and in offering opportunities to share ideas this conference seeks to move this complex debate forward.
The conference seeks contributions on the integration and application of environmental management accounting with/to other sustainable development tools and the following sub themes:
- Consideration of environmental factors in capital investment projects, decision-making, budgeting, product & process design, cost control and allocation, purchasing and product pricing.
- Environmental Management Systems (EMS), environmental performance evaluation, sustainability reporting (environmental reporting), cleaner production and EMA.
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Location: Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.
Contact: http://www.eman-af.net/content/view/30/17/ |
