In this paper a basic ethical framework is presented. It provides useful guidance for environmental informatics' contribution to design towards a sustainable information society. In more detail the framework is illustrated by a set of three essential verifications concerning human, social, and environmental acceptability. ...

Discussions concerning companies’ environmental aspects gained considerable importance and challenged business in recent years. Comprehensible and authentic as well as customised corporate environmental reporting requires substantial quantities of relevant information. In order to automate corporate environmental reporting, ...

An approach is presented to model environmental information relevant for industry in the European information space. The approach is based on the theory of external control mechanisms initially introduced by Dyllick (1992). This certain theory has its roots in new political economy on the one hand and institutional ...

Employing Internet and Hypermedia offer huge opportunities for corporate environmental reporting. They provide a comprehensive system of technical benefits and serve as powerful vehicles moving from a “green glossy brochure” towards an integrated reporting system. Such an integrated reporting system based on Internet and ...

This paper provides an approach that could be used to compare the fields of research of Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology. Based on supposed overlapping areas, this approach further facilitates the linkage between their associated communities. From a theoretical perspective, the approach makes clear whether ...

Providing more interactivity means a real step forward in corporate (online) sustainability reporting both, for companies (reporters) that provide such integrated reports and for various target groups (report users) who are interested in these reports. Interactivity includes procedures to involve target groups and ...

Sustainability reporting is an approach striving for sustainable development which meets environmental, economical and social aspects. It is supported by indicators for sustainable managing as well as by the integration of external costs. In this paper we present the conception of a software prototype for workflow-supported ...

The various developments within the field of corporate environmental communication are arranged to a comprehensive and reasonably structured survey. On the one hand, from an academics’ perspective, this survey offers an overview of recent literature and empirical studies in the field. On the other hand, from a practitioner’s ...

Umweltberichte bilden die Kerninstrumente der betrieblichen Umweltberichterstattung. Angesichts steigender Anforderungen bzgl. Automatisierung, medialer Verfügbarkeit und Zielgruppenspezifizierung bietet der Einsatz des Internet in Verbindung mit der Auszeichnungssprache XML dabei große Gestaltungschancen und eröffnet ...