Christine Jasch

Christine Maria Jasch (born November 7, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian economist , environmental expert and author .

Christine Jasch

Life

Christine Jasch graduated from a modern language grammar school in Vienna, where she graduated in 1979, and then studied economics at the University of Vienna and agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . In 1984 she applied for an irregular course in ecological economics. She was appointed as a tax advisor in 1989 and as an EMAS environmental expert in 1995 . In 1989 she founded the Vienna Institute for Ecological Economic Research. In 1999 she received the lectureship for environmental economics and management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Since 2011 she has been in charge of the assessment of sustainability reports and certification of environmental management systems for Ernst & Young Wirtschaftsprüfungs GmbH , Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Vienna.

Research and Teaching

Christine Jasch's main focus is the connection of ecological issues with business instruments, e.g. B. in environmental cost accounting and sustainability reporting. Via the Institute for Ecological Economic Research (IÖ) W, she carried out scientific work on the one hand in the basic area and on the other hand for practical application. Among other things, she creates guidelines for the implementation of corporate environmental management.

Her work focuses on the following areas:
environmental information and environmental controlling systems, environmental management systems and eco audits, environmental indicators and benchmarking, sustainability reports and assessments, ethical investment , international standardization in environmental management, emission avoidance and clean production, eco services, environmental taxes , environmental accounting and environmental cost accounting as well as material flow cost accounting.

Since 1993 she has been negotiating the ISO 14001 environmental management systems, ISO 14031 environmental performance assessment and ISO 14051 material flow cost accounting standards for the Ministry of the Environment as a delegate .

In 2000, through the sustainability committee of the Chamber of Public Accountants , which she heads, she founded the Austrian Sustainability Reporting Award (ASRA), which is awarded annually by the Chamber of Public Accountants with several cooperation partners for the best Austrian environmental and sustainability reports.

In 2001 she created a manual for environmental cost accounting for the United Nations, which was followed by an IFAC guideline. The concept of material flow accounting derived from the accounting information systems was further developed for UNIDO. In the UNIDO projects, material flow cost accounting is used in conjunction with the establishment of an environmental management system in order to be able to demonstrate the advantages of clean, integrated technologies.

Since 1993 she has been a member of the investment committee of Ökovision , the oldest environmental fund in Germany. She has also served on other ethical investment committees.

Teaching commitments exist or have passed with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, the University of Klagenfurt , the Johannes Kepler University Linz, the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt , the University of Applied Sciences Kufstein , the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien as well as the University of Krems and the University of Applied Sciences Krems .

Publications

• UNIDO : "TEST approach", Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 108, Part B, December 1, 2015, pp. 1375-1377.
• CSR and reporting. In: Andreas Schneider, René Schmidpeter (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility - Standard work for responsible corporate management in theory and practice, Springer, 2011.
• Environmental and Material Flow Cost Accounting: Principles and Procedures. Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-9027-1 .
• IÖW (Ed.): Guideline on key non-financial performance indicators, in particular on environmental and employee issues, in the management report. Vienna 2008.
• Environmental Management Accounting, Procedures and Principles. United Nations Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (United Nations publication, Sales No. 01.II.A.3).
• Environmental accounting principles and procedures. Developed for the UN Division for Sustainable Development, expert group on “Improving the Role of Government in the Promotion of Environmental Managerial Accounting”, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology , the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management and the Federal Chamber of Commerce , Vienna 2001.
• With M. Halme and M. Scharp: Sustainable Homeservices? Toward Household Services that Enhance Ecological, Social and Economic Sustainability. In: Journal of Ecological Economics, 2004; 51: 125-138
• With D. Savage: Environmental Management Accounting, International Guidance document. IFAC , New York 2005.
• How to perform an environmental cost assessment in one day. In: Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 14, Number 14, 2006.
• With M. Halme, G. Hrauda, ​​J. Kortmann, H. Jonuschat, M. Scharp, D. Velte, P. Trindada: Sustainable consumer services: Business solutions for household markets. London 2008.
• With D. Savage: International Guidance Document on environmental management accounting (EMA). IFAC, New York 2005.
• With D. Savage: International environmental cost accounting guidelines. IFAC, German translation on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, appeared in the reports from energy and environmental research of the BM VIT 44/2005
• With S. Schaltegger, M. Bennett, RL Burritt: Environmental Management Accounting for Cleaner Production. Springer 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-8913-8 .
• With S. Behrendt, MC Peneda, H. van Weenen: Life Cycle Design A Manual for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Springer 1997, ISBN 978-3-642-64551-8 .
• Environmental Management Accounting: Comparing and Linking Requirements at Micro and Macro Levels - A Practitioner's View. In: Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management, Springer 2011.

In addition, Christine Jasch has published other books, specialist articles and studies in specialist journals, edited volumes or as commissioned work for ministries and the EU.

Web links

• Institute for Ecological Economic Research Vienna
• Ecologic Institute EU
• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Institute for Agricultural and Forest Economics