From extraction to emancipation
Subtitle: development reimagined
By: Raquel Aldana, Steven W. Bender, editors
Publisher: The American Bar Association, Section of International Law; Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois; Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781531010188
Subjects: Social responsibility of business; Case studies; Human rights; Corporations; Moral and ethical aspects; Foreign Investments; Environmental justice; Sustainable development
Other titles: Development reimagined
Description: "This edited volume with a distinguished and diverse group of contributors uses Latin America, and Guatemala in particular, as a case study to examine broad gobal themes arising from development practices in emerging economies. It offers important lessons to investors and policy makers on strategies to improve distributional justice and respect for the rule of law, including human rights and environmental norms. The book examines such global themes as climate change, extractive industries, labor regimes, and forced migration, all of which have transborder implications and across-border commonalities. Moving beyond identifying problems, the contributors focus on creative solutions to help developing nations and corporations engage in more sustainable business practices."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Corporate social responsibility in the Americas : fact or fiction?  -- Marcia Narine Weldon; title: The environment and financial institutions  -- Mario Peña Chacón; title: Corporations and state responsibility under the Inter-American human rights system  -- Christian González Chacón and Fabiana Pardi Otamendi; title: Managing deforestation in Guatemala : a lesson on forest conservation for developing nations  -- María Antonia Tigre; title: Rethinking environmental impact assessment in Guatemalan mining  -- Rachael E. Salcido; title: Community-based biomonitoring : an antidote to insufficient governmental water quality monitoring and enforcement  -- Karrigan Börk; title: The right to water and sanitation in Central America  -- Mario René Mancilla Barillas; title: When climate adaptation is imperative yet elusive : Guatemala's test for climate justice  -- Patricia G. Ferreira; title: The impact of mining on self-determination of rural Guatemalan communities  -- Julie Davies; title: The indispensable ones : a story of resistance from La Puya  -- Raquel Aldana; title: The Central American experience with investor protections under CAFTA  -- José Roberto Juárez; title: Labor as an extractive industry : critiquing the precarity of the maquiladora export model the Neoliberal era  -- Steven W. Bender; title: A migration story from the sugar fields of Southwest Guatemala : a case for treating corporations as persecutors under asylum and refugee law  -- Blake Nordahl; title: Gender violence, state action, and power and control in the Northern Triangle -- Lauren Gilbert.