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A Identify the stakeholders involved in the Ok Tedi mining disaster. b Consider whether each stakeholder group, including management, is concerned about efficient decision-making, accountability of the organisation or both. 7. Costs of information: increasing environmental expenditures. Most major corporations are spending in the tens of millions of dollars annually on environmental costs, with the larger ones spending in the hundreds of millions and some spending more than US$1 billion per year (Epstein 1996: xxv).
A society is sustainable if it is structured and behaves in such a way that it can exist for an indefinite number of generations (Meadows et al. 1992: 250). Karr (1993: 299) states: ‘A sustainable society depends on a lifesupport system with integrity. ’ From this perspective, production as well as consumption must be sustainable. q 19/9/00 3:47 pm Page 47 3. the purpose of managing environmental information 47 use up its natural resources and degrade the natural environment as long as it is able to compensate for the loss with human (skills, knowledge and technology) and human-made (buildings, machinery, equipment) capital.
G. ). The two ecological efficiency ratios can be applied to different levels of aggregation, such as a unit of product, a strategic business unit or total sales of a firm. In this context it is important to consider the total output and the absolute environmental impact: a large number of ecologically efficient products can be more harmful than a small number of ecologically inefficient items. The cross-efficiency between the economic and the ecological dimension—economic– ecological efficiency—is the ratio between the change in value and change in environmental impact added.