Accounts of nature and the nature of accounts: Critical reflections on environmental accounting and propositions for ecologically informed accounting

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  2017

• Venue

  Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

• Publication date

  2017-09-18

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1108/AAAJ-07-2017-3010
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