- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Western Environmental Discourse and the Corporate Report
- 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
- Nature Intrinsically Valued
- Application of Discourse Groupings
- Summary
- 5 Predominant Corporate Philosophical Approaches
- Introduction
- Multiple Case Studies
- The Environmental Reports
- Interviews
- Zeta
- Zeta Environmental Reports
- Zeta Interview
- Gamma
- Gamma Environmental Reports
- Gamma Interview
- Beta
- Beta Environmental Reports
- Beta Interview
- Phi
- Phi Environmental Reports
- Phi Interview
- Delta
- Delta Environmental Reports
- Delta Interview
- Alpha
- Alpha Environmental Reports
- Alpha Interview
- Kappa
- Kappa Environmental Reports
- Kappa Interview
- Psi
- Psi Environmental Reports
- Psi Interview
- Theta
- Theta Environmental Reports
- Theta Interview
- Sigma
- Sigma Environmental Reports
- Sigma Interview
- Comparison
- 6 Prevalent Discursive Mechanisms
- Introduction
- Discursive Motifs
- Prevalent Discursive Mechanisms
- Dualism
- Use of Charts, Graphs and Tables
- Focus on Numbers
- Financial Language
- Materiality
- Nature as a Resource
- Offsets
- Images Minimising Apparent Impact
- Carbon Accounting
- Carbon Neutrality
- Environmental Risk
- Awards, Self-Congratulatory
- Images Which Conflict with the Surrounding Text
- Direction of Readers’ Attention Away from the Report
- Regulatory Focus
- Positive Contribution to the Environment
- Transcendence
- Interconnectivity
- Case Studies
- Summary
- 7 Unravelling the Discourse
- Introduction
- Major Findings
- Analytical Themes
- Dualism
- Dualism in Context
- Transcendence
- Transcendence in Context
- Interconnectivity
- Interconnectivity in Context
- Meaning and Importance of Findings
- Meaning of Other Findings
- Practical Implications
- How These Findings Relate to Prior Literature
- Social Constructionism
- Western Environmental Philosophy
- Corporate Environmental Reporting
- Link to Theory
- Alternative Explanations
- Relevance of Findings
- Summary
- 8 Reflecting on the Discourse of the Corporate Report
- Index
Corporate Environmental Reporting
The Western Approach to Nature
Leanne J Morrison
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