An Information Framework for Facilitating Cost Saving of Environmental Impacts in the Coal Mining Industry in South Africa
| Autor: | Mashudu David Mbedzi, John Andrew van der Poll, Huibrecht Margaretha van der Poll |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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020209 energy
Geography Planning and Development coal-mining industry cost saving EMA environmental impacts information framework LCC MFCA Monetary EMA (MEMA) Physical EMA (PEMA) TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Phase (combat) Renewable energy sources Management accounting 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering GE1-350 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Material Flow Cost Accounting Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Environmental economics Environmental sciences Conceptual framework Work (electrical) Transparency (graphic) The Conceptual Framework Business Information Framework |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 6; Pages: 1690 Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 6, p 1690 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su10061690 |
| Popis: | Coal-mining contributes much to the economic welfare of a country. Yet it brings along a number of challenges, notably environmental impacts which include water pollution in a water scarce country such as South Africa. This research is conducted in two phases. The first phase intends to establish environmental and other challenges brought about by the coal-mining industry through a comprehensive analysis of available literature. Combatting these challenges is costly; consequently, our work investigates how established management accounting tools and techniques such as Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) may facilitate cost savings for the companies involved. These techniques promote increased transparency of material usage by tracing and quantifying the flows and inventories of materials within the coal-mining industry in physical and monetary terms, hence hidden costs are elicited. The researchers postulate that an Information Framework integrating these aspects may be the way forward. To this end existing frameworks in the literature are identified. A number of research questions embodying the above aspects are defined and the objective is to define a conceptual framework to facilitate cost savings for coal-mining companies. The main contribution of this work is an information framework presented towards the end of this article. The second phase of the research will involve fieldwork in the form of a survey among stakeholders in industry to validate the conceptual framework. |
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