Corporate environmental reporting: the Western approach to nature

Western environmental discourse and the corporate report -- Western environmental philosophy -- Corporate reporting -- Operationalising critique -- Predominant corporate philosophical approaches -- Prevalent discursive mechanisms -- Unravelling the discourse -- Reflecting on the discourse of the corporate report -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Western Environmental Discourse and the Corporate Report -- Introduction -- Background -- What Is the Problem? -- Outline of Book -- Summary -- 2 Western Environmental Philosophy -- The Impacts of Western Environmental Philosophy -- The Role of Social Construction -- Western Culture -- A History -- Western Environmental Philosophies -- Intrinsic and Instrumental Values -- Ecofeminism -- Deep Ecology -- Aristotelian Ethics -- Fundamental Issues in Western Environmental Philosophy -- Immanence -- Interconnectivity -- Dualism -- Enlightenment Thought -- Modernism -- Transcendence -- Summary -- 3 Corporate Reporting -- Introduction -- Social Construction through Accounting -- Accounting as Discourse -- Accounting and Sustainability Reporting -- Sustainability and Environmental Reporting -- Corporate Environmental Reporting -- Environmental Reporting as Stakeholder Engagement -- Accountability and Transparency -- A Critical Approach -- Link to Western Environmental Philosophies -- Summary -- 4 Operationalising Critique -- Introduction -- Methodology -- A Qualitative Approach -- A Historical Perspective -- A Critical Approach -- Critical Discourse Analysis -- The Discourse -- Environmental Reports -- Written Word -- Images -- Other Discursive Mechanisms -- Interviews -- Analysing the Discourse -- Metaphor -- Ideology -- Hegemony -- Discourse Groupings -- Dualism -- Ontology of Discrete Objects -- Dualistic Anthropocentrism -- Dualistic Hierarchy -- The Human Nature Divide -- Transcendence -- Physical World Less Valued than the Transcendent -- Seeing Physical World from Afar -- Transcendent Anthropocentrism -- Interconnectivity -- Connections between Subjects -- Humans as Part of Nature.