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Call for Abstracts
16th EMAN Conference
Material Flow Cost Accounting
Dresden (Germany), 21 - 22 March 2013
Host: Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Chair for Environmental Management and Accounting, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Managing material and energy flows has been one of the core issues of cleaner production in research and practice for decades and consequently resource and energy efficiency in companies has been improved steadily. Nevertheless the analyses were often restricted to single projects; mostly the focus of the research was on physical flows, sometimes followed by a monetary evaluation. In order to support companies in better understanding both the environmental and financial consequences of their material and energy use the International Organization for Standardization has developed a standard on Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA), that was released in September 2011. In order to motivate research on this topic the conference theme of The Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network on 21-22 March 2013, hosted by the Chair of Environmental Management and Accounting at Technische Universitaet Dresden in Germany will be "Material Flow Cost Accounting" followed by a special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production.
We invite review papers, methodological papers, and case studies that include but are not restricted to the following topical areas:
• MFCA in supply chains, both upstream and downstream to improve efficiency
• Integration of external costs in MFCA
• Methodological issues of MFCA
• Relationship of MFCA to other instruments of Environmental Management Accounting
• Reviews of existing MFCA studies
• Case studies in large and small and medium sized companies
• Implementation issues of MFCA
• Mainstreaming of MFCA
Conference submissions are welcome from 1 October 2012 onwards via the
conference tool. The deadline for abstracts is 14 January 2013. Please consider submission of maximum 400 words. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 28 January 2013. Authors of accepted abstracts are required to send their extended abstract for publication in the conference proceedings by 28 February 2013.
The corresponding call for papers in the Journal of Cleaner Production has already been announced. Further information can be downloaded
here.
We look forward to welcoming you in Dresden!
Edeltraud Guenther, Anne Bergmann and the EMAN team
If you have questions please don´t hesitate to contact us:
eman2013@mailbox.tu-dresden.de For more information on EMAN and previous conferences, visit our web site at:
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