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Title
Business, human rights and the environment : the evolving agenda / Chiara Macchi.
ISBN
9789462654792 (electronic bk.)
9462654794 (electronic bk.)
9789462654785
9462654786
Published
The Hague : T.M.C Asser Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-94-6265-479-2 doi
Call Number
HD60 .M33 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
658.4/08
Summary
More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the protect, respect, remedy trichotomy. The UN Guiding Principles acted as a catalyst for hitherto unprecedented regulatory and judicial developments. The monograph by Macchi proposes a functionalist reading of the states duty to regulate the transnational activities of corporations in order to protect human rights and adopts a holistic approach to the corporate responsibility to respect, arguing that environmental and climate due diligence are inherent dimensions of human rights due diligence. In the volume emerging legislations are assessed on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence, as well as the potential and limitations of a binding international treaty on business and human rights. The book also reviews groundbreaking litigation against transnational corporations, such as Lungowe v. Vedanta or Milieudefensie v. Shell, for their human rights and climate change impacts. The book is primarily targeted at academic and non-academic legal experts, as well as at researchers and students looking at business and human rights issues through the lenses of legal studies (particularly international law and European law), political sciences, business ethics, and management. Additionally, it should also find a readership among practitioners working in the public or private sector (consultants, CSR officers, legal officers, etc.) willing to familiarize themselves with the expanding areas of liability, financial and reputational risks connected to the social and environmental impacts of global supply chains. Chiara Macchi is currently Lecturer in Law at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 13, 2022).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789462654785
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. The State Duty to Protect
Chapter 2. Responsibility Beyond Borders: Business, Human Rights, Climate Change and the State
Part II. The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights
Chapter 3. The Normative Foundation of the Corporate Responsibility to Respect: A Critical Analysis
Chapter 4. From Nuremberg to Climate Change: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect
Chapter 5. Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence
Part III. Remedies
Chapter 6. Business and Human Rights Litigation: Evolution and Trends
Part IV. Looking Forward: Pathways to Improved State and Corporate Accountability
Chapter 7. Towards a Business and Human Rights Binding Treaty: Opportunities and Challenges
Chapter 8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.
