A Literature Review on Domestic Environmental Cost Study

The deterioration of ecological environment has aroused the government and the public's great attention to environmental problems,and this will make the environmental cost become one of the hot issues for academic research. In China,research on environment cost has experienced three different stages: the initial stage,the exploratory stage and the development and prosperity stage. Its contents include the internalization of environmental cost,the definition and classification of environmental cost,the accounting of environmental cost,environmental cost control,environmental cost information disclosure and management,etc. Though there have been abundant results on environmental cost research,it turns out to have huge potential for growth in environmental cost sharing mechanism,environmental cost forecasting,and the evaluation of environmental cost management.