Measuring environmental performance: use of the toxics release inventory (TRI) and other US environmental databases

✍ Scribed by Virginia W. Gerde; Jeanne M. Logsdon

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0964-4733
• DOI: 10.1002/bse.293

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This article examines the most comprehensive databases that measure US corporate environmental performance that have become available during the 1990s. These include the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and databases maintained by Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini, and Co., the Council on Economic Priorities and the Investor Responsibility Research Center. We describe these databases and identify the significant studies on environmental performance in the field of management that use these databases. We indicate three trends that should improve the quality and quantity of publicly available environmental performance data. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment