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Sustainable atmospheric management today involves a complex set of issues arising from the deliberate or inadvertent use of the atmosphere as a repository for waste products arising from human activities. Urban pollution affects human health, building materials and vegetation. Acidic emissions and excess nutrients produce both acid rain and dry deposition that affect terrestrial, freshwater and ocean chemistry and ecosystems. The production and effects of atmospheric pollution can transcend national boundaries and thus mitigation will require cooperation on regional and global levels, as well as local action. Global pollution includes greenhouse gases and atmospheric particles which are changing the global climate and affecting human health. While technological solutions will play an important part, the large reductions in emissions necessary to achieve sustainability will involve adopting lifestyles that conserve energy and minimise pollution. These concerns were foreshadowed in the writings of Fritz Schumacher.

Gordon Boyce, is a senior lecturer in the Macquarie University Department of Accounting and Finance, where he is a member of the Social and Critical Research in Accounting and Accountability Group. His interdisciplinary research encompasses social, critical and interpretive perspectives on accounting. Previous publications include research on environmental and social accounting; public administration, ethics and accountability; interactions between globalisation and accounting; and accounting education. Gordon presently teaches subjects in accounting information systems, accounting and society, social and critical perspectives on accounting and contemporary developments in accounting research.