Accountability, Philosophy and the Natural Environment - Accountability, Philosophy and the Natural Environment -

I: Critical accountability Key themes in accountability research Defining interpretivism Applying interpretation Objections and contrary opinions Aims and objectives Environmental dilemmas Environmental sustainability and neoliberalism Limiting neoliberalism in the Anthropocene Notes Bibliography The art of interpretation and Nature Key perspectives - modernity's baggage The art of interpretation and modern politics Interpretivism and Nature Frameworks and methods - the ideal type Frameworks and methods - the ideal type and stopping points Interpretivism - basic terms and ideas Accounting and interpretivism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Markets, the business case, and interpretivism Introduction The business case for sustainability Neoliberalism and Nature Limits of instrumental reason and business approaches to sustainability Sustainability and the business case Challenging economic sustainability and the business case Recent environmental and social accounting developments: interstitial accounts Further interpretivist responses to business and the dilemmas of modernity Blind loyalty to capitalism or challenging it through the ekklesia?The early liberal social accounting model Conclusion Notes Bibliography Postmodernism and interpretivism: Basic issues Introduction: basic issues in accountability and Nature Postmodernism and Nature Postmodern environmentalism and accountability Accountability and the postmodernism Recent developments: Martin Messner, accountability, and postmodernism Postmodern engagements with interpretivism: the politics of reconciliation Taylor's and White's search for middle-ground between open-world and closed-world thinking Conclusion Notes Bibliography The public sphere, corporations, and society Introduction Accountability and civil society Accountability and the human dimension Accountability, management, and knowledge Conclusion Notes Bibliography External relations: Re-engaging the company with the community in which it operates External relations, re-engaging the community with the community in which it operates Engaged agency and practical reason Improving corporate relations Rebuilding the corporation from the inside out - the role of the public sphere Conclusion Notes Bibliography II: Philosophical perspectives Basic concepts in accountability research: Key accountability theorists and issues Introduction: Key accountability thinkers shaping modern accountability Bentham and Mill Bentham: Gallhofer-Haslam (2019) to Goodin (1992) and back again Mill's utilitarianism and its view of Nature Kant and accountability Rawls and accountability Habermas's critical philosophy Critical theory Critical perspectives on accounting reform proposals Critical theory and its challenge to interpretivism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Basic issues in accountability: Interpretivism, openness, and transparency Some basic themes between decision usefulness and emancipator accounting Utilitarians Bentham and Mill - some further problems and prospects More problems with utilitarianism Gallhofer and Haslam: from Bentham to Laclau and Mouffe's postmodernism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Liberal accountability: Current environmental and social challenges and policy Introduction Further objections and contrary opinions Accountability and decision-usefulness Environmental accountability and transparency Justice and accountability Applying Rawls and Kant to accountability and environmental ethics Rawls' model of justice and primary goods Consensus and self-respect Closeness Transparency The justice model for environmental accounting (Quietism)Greed and altruism Present and future generations and other sentient life forms Arbitrating through accounting Accounting and accountability Recent developments in liberal accountability thought Conclusion Notes Bibliography Critical and radical accounting and accountability: Basic philosophical issues in accountability research Introduction Laughlin's Habermas: accountability and judgement Habermas and Taylor – a succinct introduction to language Background sources: Habermas and Taylor Differences between Habermas and Taylor The sacred and the secular Combining differences in a postmodern world Conclusion Notes Bibliography III: The environment Deep Ecology and interpretivism Introduction Basic definitions Origins of Deep Ecology Features of deep ecology Deep Ecology and Nature Deep ecology and structure Conclusion Notes Bibliography Deep Ecology, community, and interpretation Introduction Some philosophical implications of Deep Ecology Mysticism and Deep Ecology Undemocratic and authoritarian: eco-terrorism and anarchism Pragmatism: Deep Ecology lacks a process for achieving environmental and social change Conclusion Notes Bibliography Perspectives on Deep Ecology: Basic issues Introduction A middle way: a focus on interests A middle way: biocentric egalitarianism?Deep Ecology and the biocentric ethic Conclusion Notes Bibliography Deep Ecology and interpretation: Social Ecology and how people relate to the world Communitarian, Deep and radical ecology Social ecology and nature Marxism and critical theory's response to social ecology Interpretation, Deep Ecology to radical critique World disclosers and Nature Ecological politics and moral theory Conclusion Note Bibliography Perspectives on Nature: An environmental values perspective Introduction The current dominant discourse and the EVP Transformation involving an EVP Further problems with the business case Accountability as a secular (anti-realist) discourse for Nature Engaged agency - an EVP Biomimicry and transpersonal ecology Applying the EVP: accounting in communicative action for Natural assets Account 1: the interpretivism of Perkiss and Tweedie Account 2: basic issues in communication and the public sphere Deep ecology and the politics of Nature Conclusions: enchanting the public sphere Notes Bibliography New directions for environmental democracy Bibliography