Environmental accounting and sustainable development: an empirical review

The appearance of sustainable development as the complex perception of social and environmental issues which must be addressed growing influence in the accounting practices. The main purpose of this paper is to identify how environmental accounting can be able to contribute for ensuring sustainable development. This construing used existing empirical literature especially it has conducted general search by the name of environmental accounting application in the sustainable development in different online database sources such as Science Direct, Emerald, Springer Link, EBSCO Host, Scopus and Google Scholars, etc. The study summarized from the review findings that proper practices of environmental accounting is a vital issue for sustainable development especially to concentrate on environmental taxes, environmental costs, valuing ecosystem services, costing of carbon dioxide, and cost of water pollution and ensure income sustainability of green products in the way of sustainable development