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Summary
Summary
FINAL BLURB FOR COVER (approved by Author) 20.11.01If 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 anenvironmentally responsible manner, does this contribute significantly to sustainable development?* What combination of measures is likely to work in scaling up anddeepening environmental good practice by companies in developingcountries?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.
Author Notes
About the EditorPeter Utting, the Editor of this volume, is a project coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva. He is the coeditor of States of Disarray: The Social Effects of Globalization, editor of Forest Policy and Politics in the Philippines, and his authored books include Trees, People and Power: Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Central America, (Earthscan, 1993).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards Corporate Environmental Responsibility?Peter Utting |
I: The Environmental Record of the Private Sector: Selected Cases |
The Greening of Business in MexicoDavid Barkin |
Environmental Management as an Indicator of Business Responsibility in Central AmericaLawrence Pratt and Emily D. Fintel |
Bioprospecting in Costa Rica: Facing New Dimensions of Social and Environmental ResponsibilitySilvia Rodriacute and guez and Maria Antonieta |
The Environmental and Social Effects of Corporate Environmentalism in the Brazilian Pulp IndustryRicardo Carrere |
Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: The Potential and Limits of Voluntary InitiativesMartin Perry and Sanjeev Singh |
II: Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Mechanisms and Strategies |
Disturbing Development: Conflicts Between Corporate Environmentalism, the International Economic Order, and SustainabilityRichard Welford |
Environmental Regulation of Transnational Corporations |
Needs and ProspectsMichael Hansen |
Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: What Role for "Self-regulatory" and "Co-regulatory" Policy Instruments in South Africa?Jonathan Hanks |
New Partnerships for Sustainable Development: The Changing Nature of Business |
NGO RelationsDavid F. Murphy and Jem Bendell |
Towards Civil Regulation: NGOs and the Politics of Corporate EnvironmentalismJem Bendell and David F. Murphy |
Corporate Environmentalism in the South: Assessing the Limits and Prospects |
Peter Utting Introduction: Towards Corporate Environmental Responsibility?Peter Utting |
Part I The Environmental Record of the Private Sector: Selected Cases |
The Greening of Business in MexicoDavid Barkin |
Environmental Management as an Indicator of Business Responsibility in Central AmericaLawrence Pratt and Emily D. Fintel |
Bioprospecting in Costa Rica: Facing New Dimensions of Social and Environmental ResponsibilitySilvia Rodriacute and guez and Maria Antonieta |
The Environmental and Social Effects of Corporate Environmentalism in the Brazilian Pulp IndustryRicardo Carrere |
Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: The Potential and Limits of Voluntary InitiativesMartin Perry and Sanjeev Singh |
Part II Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Mechanisms and Strategies |
Disturbing Development: Conflicts Between Corporate Environmentalism, the International Economic Order, and SustainabilityRichard Welford |
Environmental Regulation of Transnational Corporations |
Needs and ProspectsMichael Hansen |
Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: What Role for "Self-regulatory" and "Co-regulatory" Policy Instruments in South Africa?Jonathan Hanks |
New Partnerships for Sustainable Development: The Changing Nature of Business |
NGO RelationsDavid F. Murphy and Jem Bendell |
Towards Civil Regulation: NGOs and the Politics of Corporate EnvironmentalismJem Bendell and David F. Murphy |
Corporate Environmentalism in the South: Assessing the Limits and ProspectsPeter Utting |