Background and Issues
Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management (AEAM) invites submissions for Volume 14, focusing on contemporary issues in environmental accountability and technologies.
In recent years, the field of environmental accounting and management has been reshaped by significant transformations in sustainability reporting regimes, with increased disclosures in both volume and complexity (Liu et al., 2025; Moses et al., 2024), alongside developments in mandatory climate standards (Ehalaiye et al., 2025; Habib et al., 2025; Moses et al., 2025). These shifts are occurring alongside rapid advances in technological infrastructures, particularly in relation to digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and data-driven accountability systems (Massaro et al., 2025), with important implications for organisations’ environmental disclosures and accountability practices (Liu et al., 2025). Notwithstanding these developments, important research frontiers remain insufficiently explored within the environmental accounting and management literature.
AEAM Volume 14 responds to these developments. This volume seeks to advance broader scholarship in environmental accounting, particularly at the intersection of accountability and emerging technologies by highlighting issues that extend beyond traditional emphases on environmental reporting and disclosure. Hence, we encourage and seek scholarship that engages directly with the practicalities of enabling substantive environmental accountability, in aspects with limited engagement, such as:
· practical operationalisation of environmental sustainability standards, including frameworks developed by the International Sustainability Standards Board;
· the intersection of environmental accounting and accountability with digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and data governance infrastructures;
· environmental accountability implications for nature, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities;
· organisations’ environmental accountability in relation to nature-related risks and opportunities, planetary boundaries, and materiality judgements;
· [re]configuration of accountability within complex, multi-level institutional settings, particularly across diverse regulatory, socio-economic, and political jurisdictions.
We invite contributions that address these gaps and advance theoretical, empirical, and methodological insights into the evolving role of environmental accounting and management.
Submission Process and Deadline
We encourage a diverse range of submissions, including empirical studies (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods), conceptual and theoretical papers, critical and interpretive analyses, policy-oriented research, and case studies or practice-based insights. Submissions should demonstrate strong theoretical grounding, methodological rigour, and a clear contribution to advancing environmental accounting and management scholarship.
All manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind peer review and editorial process in accordance with Emerald Publishing policies. Previous volumes and guide can be found here. Authors should submit their manuscripts directly to: Yinka Moses ([email protected]).
Deadline for full paper submission:
30 November 2026 (Early submissions are welcome).
References
Ehalaiye, D., Moses, O., & Redmayne, N. B. (2025). The State of Play of Climate-Related Information Assurance in New Zealand. Climate Risks Reporting Practices and Assurance (Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management, Vol. 13), Emerald Publishing Limited, p. 77-94. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-359820250000013010
Habib, A., Ehalaiye, D., Islam, A., & Musundwa, S. (Eds.). (2025). Climate Risks Reporting Practices and Assurance. Climate Risks Reporting Practices and Assurance (Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management, Vol. 13), Emerald Publishing Limited, p. xvii- xxv
Liu, M., Taylor-Neu, K., Saxton, G. D., Neu, D., Rahaman, A. S., & Everett, J. (2025). Indigenous peoples, environmental accountability and the semantic meaning of resource extraction firm disclosures. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 38(5), 1375-1404. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-03-2024-6935
Massaro, M., Spanò, R., & Kuruppu, S. C. (2025). Accountability and the metaverse: unaccounted digital worlds between techwashing mechanisms and new emerging meanings. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 38(3), 908-933. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2022-6118
Moses, O., Bui, B., Houqe, M. N., & Borghei, Z. (2025). Readiness for Mandatory Climate‐Related Disclosures: A Tri‐Jurisdictional Analysis of Governance Attributes in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34(3), 3739-3763. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4154
Moses, O., Ehalaiye, D., Sorola, M., & Lassou, P. (2024). Extractive sector governance: does a nexus of accountability render local extractive industries transparency initiatives ineffective? Meditari Accountancy Research, 32(1), 176-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-08-2021-1426