TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zarsky,Lyuba
TI  - Human rights and the environment: conflicts and norms in a globalizing world 
SN  - 1853838152
AV  - HD75 .H86 
U1  - 333.7 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London, Sterling, VA
PB  - Earthscan
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Environmental responsibility
KW  - Human rights
KW  - 43.70 economic development and environment
KW  - bcl
KW  - Droits de l'homme
KW  - eclas
KW  - Développement économique
KW  - Développement durable
KW  - Protection de l'environnement
KW  - Ethique
KW  - Pays en développement
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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