New development: Managing and accounting for sustainable development across generations in public services—and call for papers

Abstract

Social and environmental justice across generations is a fundamental attribute of sustainable development. In this article, which is also a call for papers for a future theme in Public Money & Management (PMM), we develop our case for further research on how governments and public service organizations seek to address sustainable development in their decision-making processes. We believe that accounting for social and environmental aspects is an underdeveloped area of research and practice that is worthy of further critical enquiry. We therefore call on researchers and practitioners to submit their research to a themed issue of PMM on managing and accounting for sustainable development in public services.

Keywords:

• Accounting–sustainability hybrids
• intergenerational equity
• social and environmental justice

Submissions to the Public Money & Management (PMM) theme

A theme on ‘Managing and accounting for sustainable development across generations in public services’ (theme editors: Suzana Grubnic, Ian Thomson and Georgios Georgakopoulos) will be published in PMM, Vol. 37, No. 4 (July 2017). Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for refereeing to the theme editors by 1 September 2016. Debate and new development articles are also welcome and should be submitted by 1 October 2016. Authors should follow PMM's instructions for authors when preparing papers: see http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpmm20/current. Papers should be sent to Dr Suzana Grubnic:

[email protected]