CiNii Books - The greening of business in developing countries : rhetoric, reality and prospects

FINAL BLURB FOR COVER (approved by Author) 20.11.01 If sustainable development is to become a reality, then transnational corporations must take their environmental responsibilities seriously. In the industrialised countries, some positive steps have been taken. The rhetoric of corporate environmental responsibility is also extending to developing countries, but very little is known about the extent of concrete changes there in the environmental performance of big business. This book explores what is happening in the developing world. Three principal questions are focused upon: * To what extent is the greening of business a reality in the South? * If large corporations are pursuing their business interests in an environmentally responsible manner, does this contribute significantly to sustainable development? * What combination of measures is likely to work in scaling up and deepening environmental good practice by companies in developing countries? The original research contained in this volume spans a number of major sectors - manufacturing, oil extraction, logging, and bioprospecting. Particular attention is paid to the experience of Brazil, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore and South Africa. Corporate self-regulation, environmental reporting and voluntary codes of conduct are examined. In addition, there are detailed studies of the complementary approaches that are necessary, including the regulatory measures and incentives which governments can put in place, and the increasingly well publicised role which citizens' movements and NGOs are playing in holding business to account for its environmental impact. This pioneering set of studies not only provides a rich seam of hard data on the environmental record of big business in the South, but even more importantly, it examines the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of environmental policies and contexts, including the frequently contradictory pressures of the market place and public campaigns which impact on corporations in this critically important arena.

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Foreword - Uwe Holtz Foreword to the English Edition - James Oporia-Ekwaro and Axel Klein 1. Introduction - Tobias Debiel PART 1: STATE FAILURE, WAR ECONOMIES, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE 2. The Reconstruction and Transformation of War-Torn Societies and State Institutions: What Role can Outside Actors Play? - Nicole Ball 3. An Independent System of Justice: The Condition Required to Check Arbitrary State Rule - Hans-Joachim Heintze 4. Decentralization, Power-Sharing, and Crisis Prevention - Andreas Mehler PART 2: CRISIS REGIONS BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND DEVELOPMENT: APPROACHES TO CONFLICT SETTLEMENT AND CHECKS ON THE RULE OF THE STATE 5. State Building and Conflict Resolution in the Southern Caucasus - Rainer Freitag-Wirminghaus 6. Crisis of the State, Rule of Law, and Reform of the Security Sector: The Example of Georgia - Data Darchiashvili 7. The Central American Conflict System: Outside Actors and Changing Violence - Sabine Kurtenbach 8. Crisis of the State, Rule of Law, and Reform of the Security Sector: The Example of Guatemala - Bernardo Arevalo De Leon 9. The Turbulent Horn of Africa: Political Regimes in the Process of Change - Axel Klein 10. Crisis of State, the Rule of Law, and Reform of the Security Sector: The Example of Ethiopia - Siegfried Pausewang PART 3: REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF SEPTEMBER 11 11. Resort to Violence by Non-State Actors: The Terrorism of September 11 as a Challenge to Foreign Security and Development Policy - Tobias Debiel

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If sustainable development is to become a reality, then transnational corporations must take their environmental responsibilities seriously. In the industrialised countries, some positive steps have been taken. The rhetoric of corporate environmental responsibility is also extending to developing countries, but very little is known about the extent of concrete changes there in the environmental performance of big business. This book explores what is happening in the developing world. Three principal questions are focused upon: * To what extent is the greening of business a reality in the South? * If large corporations are pursuing their business interests in an environmentally responsible manner, does this contribute significantly to sustainable development? * What combination of measures is likely to work in scaling up and deepening environmental good practice by companies in developing countries? The original research contained in this volume spans a number of major sectors - manufacturing, oil extraction, logging, and bioprospecting. Particular attention is paid to the experience of Brazil, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore and South Africa. Corporate self-regulation, environmental reporting and voluntary codes of conduct are examined. In addition, there are detailed studies of the complementary approaches that are necessary, including the regulatory measures and incentives which governments can put in place, and the increasingly well publicised role which citizens' movements and NGOs are playing in holding business to account for its environmental impact. This pioneering set of studies not only provides a rich seam of hard data on the environmental record of big business in the South, but even more importantly, it examines the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of environmental policies and contexts, including the frequently contradictory pressures of the market place and public campaigns which impact on corporations in this critically important arena.

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Introduction: Towards Corporate Environmental Responsibility? - Peter Utting Part I: The Environmental Record of the Private Sector: Selected Cases 1. The Greening of Business in Mexico - David Barkin 2. Environmental Management as an Indicator of Business Responsibility in Central America - Lawrence Pratt and Emily D. Fintel 3 . Bioprospecting in Costa Rica: Facing New Dimensions of Social and Environmental Responsibility - Silvia Rodriguez and Maria Antonieta Camacho 4. The Environmental and Social Effects of Corporate Environmentalism in the Brazilian Pulp Industry - Ricardo Carrere 5. Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: The Potential and Limits of Voluntary Initiatives - Martin Perry and Sanjeev Singh Part II: Promoting Corporate Environmenta Responsibility: Mechanisms and Strategies 6. Disturbing Development: Conflicts between Corporate Environmentalism, the International Economic Order and Sustainability - Richard Welford 7. Environmental Regulation of Transnational Corporations: Needs and Prospects - Michael Hansen 8. Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility:What Role for "Self-regulatory" and "Co-regulatory" Policy Instruments in South Africa? - Jonathan Hanks 9. New Partnerships for Sustainable Development: The Changing Nature of Business-NGO Relations - David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell 10. Towards Civil Regulation: NGOs and the Politics of Corporate Environmentalism - Jem Bendell and David F. Murphy 11. Corporate Environmentalism in the South: Assessing the Limits and Prospects - Peter Utting Acronyms Notes on Contributors Index

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