Accountability and Transparency in the Modern Anthropocene

​Associate Professor Glen Lehman is Senior Research Fellow: Accounting at the University of South Australia Business School, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and conducts research in the fields of accounting, philosophy and social theory. Professor Lehman is also a member of the Centre for Applied Financial Studies (CAFS) which merges financial theory and practice by bringing together academics and industry experts to facilitate international research collaborations in Finance.Professor Lehman completed a PhD in ecological political theory at Flinders University, where he also attained degrees in economics, accounting and political science, and an MBA at the University of South Australia. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the internationally influential interdisciplinary research journal Accounting Forum from 1994 - 2018. He has served on more than ten journal editorial boards internationally providing his experience and knowledge. Professor Lehmanhas published scholarly articles in a range of prestigious journals, is a member of the British, the American and the Australian Accounting Associations, and has been a visiting researcher in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Basic issues: Liberal accountability to interpretivism.- Chapter 2: Background: Current accountability, environmental and social challenges and policy.- Chapter 3 – Liberal accountability: a critical perspective.- Chapter 4 – Accountability and democratic structures: coping with environment and social crises.- Chapter 5 – Global dimensions of accountability: relationships between the global and the local.- Chapter 6 - Nature’s value I : Deep ecology and community.- Chapter 7 – Nature's Value II: social ecology and how people relate to the world.- Chapter 8 - The Role of NGOs: filling the void between governments and the environment.- Chapter 9 - Critical Accountability: From Derrida To Taylor’s Interpretivism.- Conclusion.