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Sustainability on campus : knowledge creation through social and environmental reporting
We are very grateful for the comments received by the reviewers of this paper. We appreciate the support received by members of staff and external organizations (due to research procedures we are unable to disclose their names) that contributed to the project. We also would like to express our appreciation to Dr Bill Jackson and Dr Akira Yonekura for their useful comments and feedback. Thanks also go to the students who participated in the project. Without their engagement and passion to the subject this article would not exist. An early version of this paper was presented the 2013 International Enhancement Themes Conference organized by the Scottish Higher Education Academy. We very much appreciated the comments received during this event. We are also grateful for the comments we received at the BAFA 50th Annual conference. We also would like to give our thanks to the Edinburgh Centre for European Financial Studies (EDIFIS) and the QAA Enhancement Theme, who provided small grants to the University Enhancement Group to support this project.Peer reviewedPostprin
Calculating the carbon footprint:implications for governing emissions and gender relations
In this article, we use fresh empirical evidence, and draw on feminist and critical
accounting and organisational theories to contend that carbon calculators can be
interpreted as discriminatory control technologies. They do this by providing a
new and flexible vocabulary for governing expenses, costs and investments at a
distance, avoiding a sense of direct intervention by the government. Thus, given
our stance that the carbon calculator cannot be considered a neutral tool, we
argue that it has the potential to control personal responsibilities regarding both
environmental and family‐based issues