Corporate Environmental Reporting

3 Corporate Reporting

Introduction

Corporate environmental reporting sits at the junction of western environmental philosophy, cultural discourse and the environmental impact of corporations. By articulating the relationship between the corporation and the natural world, corporate environmental reporting implicitly draws from western attitudes towards nature in its discourse. The previous chapter identified philosophies that have impacted the western cultural approach to the natural world. This will provide some useful tools to unpack the contemporary corporate relationship with nature. Chapter 3 now explores corporate environmental reporting, in particular where philosophy and corporate reporting intersect. Since corporate environmental ...