Announcement of an environmental indicators/environmental accounting
conference
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Announcement of an environmental indicators/environmental accounting
conference at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in late
1996:
1996 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference on the Environment:
"TRACKING PROGRESS LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY
THROUGH INDICATORS AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS"
Towards sustainability:
Where are we now?
What are our targets?
How to judge progess?
When: September 30 early October 3 1996
Where: University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Whilst the notion of sustainability has been embraced world-wide we seem to
have made little progress towards its achievement. To move towards
sustainability, targets must be set and performance measured in a manner
which integrates environmental and economic parameters.
There is much activity in Australia and overseas at present in State of the
Environment reporting, in developing accounting systems which give due
recognition to the value of the environment, and in developing indicators
and indices for both these purposes.
Discussion on these issues has largely taken place amongst
government agency staff and academics and within the private sector, but
there has not been wider public debate involving the full range of
interested and affected parties.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together those with expertise in
measuring change through both bio-physical and economic parameters, with
the wide range of stakeholders from government, the private sector (from
the resource industries to banking and finance), NGOs , the scientific,
social science and technology professions, and other interested members of
the community.
The emphasis will be on tools and methods for Measuring Progress bearing in
mind the underlying objectives of developing indicators and accounting
systems that inform the community about progress toward achieving
sustainability targets and assist environmental policy development and
sound allocation of environmental management resources. The OECD
'pressure-state-response' model for State of the Environment reporting
provides a useful framework for exploring linkages. The conference
discussions will encompass environmental indicators and accounting
techniques at national, state, regional and local levels as well as at the
level of individual companies/organisations and industry sectors.
One whole day will be devoted to macro (national / regional) reporting and
accounting and another day to micro (corporate) reproting and accounting.
For further information contact:
Ronnie Harding, Director
Institute of Environmental Studies
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
Phone: 61 2 385 4973
Fax: 61 2 663 1015
Email: R.Harding@unsw.edu.au
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- David Eckstein -
- Institute of Environmental Studies -
- University of New South Wales -
- SYDNEY -
- NSW 2052 -
- AUSTRALIA -
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- Fax: + 61 2 663 1015 -
- Phone: + 61 2 385 5707 -
- Email: D.Eckstein@unsw.edu.au -
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