Making Environmental Accounting Work: Case of the Zimbabwe Mining Industry

The research sought to find out how environmental accounting can work in Zimbabwean Mining Companies. Descriptive design was used and mixture of qualitative quantitative data collected using questionnaires interviews. Stratified purposeful sampling 52 respondents made up 16 Companies' executives which are dominant companies mining gold, nickel, asbestos, coal, copper chromite, 20 government organisations representatives communities’ heads (8 Chiefs 8 Headmen) were done. Community interviewed sent who also two months after. reveals that is not doing enough fostering the implementation Zimbabwe. There no commitment resources by towards adoption accounting. sector has been politicized, making it difficult enforce laws this whilst on other hand there effective policies regulate issues. core existences economic instability political upheavals nation have forced firms concentrate their continued existence, almost nothing It noted proper monitoring controlling activities law enforcers, leaving natural environment subjected unsustainable activities. guidelines. recommended monitor control independent politics commit both human financial researching best be implemented.