Corporate Environmental Reporting

1 Western Environmental Discourse and the Corporate Report

In this period of crisis, time taken for the development of theory seems luxury indeed. But if we do not understand the development and the defects in the western story of reason and nature, we may remain trapped within it or settle for one of its new versions.

(Plumwood, 1993, p. 196)

Introduction

By articulating the relationship between the corporation and the natural world, corporate environmental reporting implicitly draws from cultural attitudes towards nature. Since this relationship has been blamed in large part for the current environmental crisis, it is imperative that we closely examine the values with which it is informed. In order to explore these underpinning values ...