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In the last five years accounting for the environment has taken an increasingly central role in shaping discussion within the international accounting profession. Environmental accounting is now seen as an essential element in any organization's environmental response. This book seeks to answer the question "What can/should accountants do in response to the developing environmental agenda?" It lays out the best accounting practice with regard to the environment world-wide, and provides ideas for experimentation and future development.

For all that we have dicovered thousands of planets around other stars, life in the luxurious abundance and complexity it has achieved on Earth may be a rarity. Soon after humans arrived, a mere blink of an eye ago in geological terms, we began to encroach on nature, and how we are in full-scale assault on the biosphere. Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz trace how life change the Earth, and the havoc humans have wreaked upon it, but also show ways in which we might use our imaginations and technological skills to enhance our lives while protecting the cosmic oasis on which we and all living things coexist. Book jacket.

In this book a foreign affairs analyst takes a hard look at the influence that U.S. officials and organizations brought to bear between 1960 and 1976 on the armed forces and police, large corporations, political parties, news media, and regional development agencies of Brazil.

Annotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.