Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rights of indigenous peoples in international law / Fergus MacKay -- Global reach : human rights and environment in the framework of corporate accountability / Lyuba Zarsky -- Mining in Suriname: Multinationals, the State and the Maroon Community of Nieuw Koffiekamp / Fergus MacKay -- Environmental human rights and mining conflicts in Ghana / Douglas Korsah-Brown -- Conflicts over transnational oil and gas development off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East: A David and Goliath tale / Erika Rosenthal -- Environmental and human rights impacts of trade liberalization: a case study in Batam Island, Indonesia / Agus Sari -- Global norms, local compliance and the human rights-environment nexus : a case study of the Nam Theun II Dam in Laos / Philip Hirsch -- The Darien region between Colombia and Panama: Gap or seal? / Pascal O. Girot -- Environmental, development and human rights in China: A case study of foreign waste dumping / Changhua Wu and Simon Wang -- Environment and land in Bushbuckridge, South Africa / Robert Thornton -- Ecological roots of conflict in eastern and central Africa: Towards a regional ombudsman / John Mugabe and Godber W. Tumushabe / Promoting environmental human rights through innovations in mediation / Naomi Roht-Arriaza.

The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. This text analyzes the issues, showing how new standards can be established.