This thesis examines the factors affecting audit and non-audit fees and the effects of the joint provision of audit and non-audit services on auditing. The first essay focuses on environmental factors. Using data for Swedish listed companies over a six year span, including pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis periods, the essay investigates whether changing economic conditions affect the level of...

Drawing on fieldwork, this article investigates the interplay between environmental and civilizational crisis at dawn of Anthropocene. We explain how in lower Cauca region Colombia, possibilities overcoming are crushed by power constellations that delegitimize traditional ecological alternatives to extractive systems governance production. These Indigenous peasant knowledges practices, which em...

This paper discusses opportunities to promote pollution prevention technologies through public policy, describing the case of dry cleaning. The crisis in dry cleaning is associated with the industry's reliance on perchloroethylene (PCE), the chemical cleaning solvent used by the vast majority of cleaners. The limits to the current pollution control or end-of-pipe system of laws and regulations ...

Environmental pollutants, such as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), furans (PCDFs) and dioxin like PCBs keep appearing in the food chains due to their recalcitrant environmental characteristics and due to practices of raw materials, feed and food producers. Despite emission control measures taken, which have resulted in significant reductions in environmental contamination, Dioxin-food...

This article discusses the impact of Rohingya refugee settlements on local environment and increasing social tensions between refugees residents. Drawing qualitative field data from Rohingyas, residents various government non-government organisations, it focuses root causes environmental loss. It also portrays viewpoints both Rohingyas locals socio-environmental crisis. The study found that mas...