Efficient and effective environmental management requires the integration of a broad variety of existing knowledge assets (analysis, best practices, lesson learned) and their documentation. An environmental knowledge object within the meaning of an environmental knowledge management consists of content (data and information) ...

In this paper, we propose a reference architecture for sustainability reports based on the eXtensible Businesses Reporting Language (XBRL) which in particular meets – among others – the forthcoming requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) sustainability reporting guidelines, to be released in late 2006. ...