Increasingly scarce ecological resources make environmental concerns increasingly relevant in decision-making. In 1996, the chair of Business Administration established its Environmental Management specialty to integrate environmental developments into teaching and research at the TU Dresden.

Article "Carbon Accounting: a systematic literature review." published in the Journal of Cleaner Production

The term "Carbon Accounting" is an often used term in the research area "Climate change mitigation", but the understanding differs between scientific areas and in practice. Thus, the article focus on the questions “How is the term carbon accounting defined?” or “What is the understanding of carbon accounting?”. Based on a systematic literature review, a definition of carbon accounting is proposed that can be used by academics to operationalize their research questions, by legislators to delimit obligatory and voluntary accounting and by practitioners to establish carbon accounting in companies.

Stechemesser, K., Guenther, E., Carbon accounting: a systematic literature review, Journal of Cleaner Production (2012), doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.02.021

Freiburg Call for Action - Declaration of International Environmental Laureates

One year after the catastrophy in Fukushima 63 environmental laureates from 37 countries - Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Guenther is one of them - adopted a declaration on Rio+20, the Freiburg Call for Action. They all represent evidence, that solutions to lead the world towards a just and sustainable future exist. They call upon each single country, each single city, each single company and each single individual to become a pioneer of change and to make decisions for a more sustainable future. www.european-environment-foundation.eu

Article "Review and downscaling of life cycle decision support tools for the procurement of low-value products" published in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Based on a research project on Operating Room Textiles, Martin Nowack, Holger Hoppe and Edeltraud Guenther analyze, how environmental aspects can be derived from life cycle management instruments for procurement decisions of low-value products. They derive a decision vector consisting of four dimensions: 1. life cycle assessment results (energy use, CO2-equivalents, water and waste), 2. eco-labels, 3. environmental management system of the supplier and 4. country of origin. http://www.springerlink.com/content/d5r06836g86q7763/fulltext.pdf

Meeting of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network

In order to support companies in better understanding both the environmental and financial consequences of their material and energy use the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed a standard on Material Flow Cost Accounting, that was released in September 2011. In order to motivate research on this topic the conference theme of The Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network on March, 21–22 2013 hosted by the Chair of Environmental Management and Accounting at Technische Universitaet Dresden in Germany will be “Material Flow Cost Accounting” followed by a special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production. By announcing this special issue almost two years in advance we want to encourage the scientific community to start projects. For the detailed call for papers see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652612000376

Shades of green

In their article "Shades of green: using computer-aided qualitative data analysis to explore different aspects of corporate environmental performance" in the Journal of Management Control Claudia Poser, Edeltraud Guenther and Marc Orlitzky provide an overview on the definition and measurement concepts of "Environmental Performance" in konzeptionellen und empirischen Studien.

Call for Ideas "Sustainable Corporate Governance: Cost Consciousness – Business Benefits" Idea Competition of the German Council for Sustainable Development

The German Council for Sustainable Development is asking interested parties to take part in its idea competition "Sustainable Corporate Governance: Cost Consciousness – Business Benefits" . Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Guenther is a member of the steering committee, lead by Jochen Zeitz, Chief Sustainability Officer of PPR and Executive Chairman of PUMA SE.

job advertisement: research assistant (m/f)

As of now, the Chair of Business Administration especially Environmental Management at the TU Dresden is seeking 2 research assistants (E 13 TV-L) with 75% of regular weekly working time. The positions are terminable until 30.06.2013. The duration of employment complies with the German scientific fixed-term contract law Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz. (WissZeitVG)

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