Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
Subtitle: Lessons from the Mining Sector
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD Global Forum on International Investment
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789264199026
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology); Finance and Investment; Industry and Services
Description: Foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the forces fostering closer economic interdependence among countries. The rapid increase in FDI flows has generated considerable debate about its environmental and social implications in host countries. While much of the debate on these issues has been general in nature, this volume deepens the analysis by examining the FDI-environment relationship in a specific sector and identifies emerging best practices. Empirical evidence from the mining sector is presented, and the key elements of the policy and institutional frameworks that guide investors’ environmental behaviour are discussed. In addition, the emerging role of voluntary commitments by enterprises to safeguard the environment is examined.
Table of contents: title: Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: Lessons from the Mining Sector by Seiichi Kondo; title: Rapporteurs Report by richard Sandbrook and Pradeep Mehta; title: Part I. The Environmental Performance of Foreign Investors in the Mining Sector: Empirical Evidence; title: -Environmental Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment in the Mining Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa by Colin Noy Boocook; title: Environmental Efffects of Foreign versus Domestic Investment in the Mining Sector in Latin America by Nicola Borregaard and Annie Dufey; title: Environmental Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment in the Mining Sector: The Russian Federation and Kazakhstan by Mikael Henzler; title: Part II. The Integration of Environmental and Investment Policy Goals: Policy and Institutional Frameworks; title: -An Asset for Competitiveness: Sound Environmental Management in Mining Countries by Monika Weber-Fahr, Craig Andrews, Leo Maraboli, and John Strongman; title: Financial Institutions and the "Greening" of FDI in the Mining Sector by Maryanne Grieg-Gram; title: FDI in Mining: Discrimination and Non-Discrimination by Konrad von Moltke; title: Part III. The Role of Voluntary Approaches; title: -Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Protection: Lessons from the Mining and Forestry Sectors by Neil Gunningham; title: Moving Towards Healthier Governance in Host Countries: The Contribution of Extractive Industries by Kathryn Gordon and Florent Pestre; title: The Relevance of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to the Mining Sector and the Promotion of Sustainable Development by Patrica Feeney