Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law

Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
300
ISBN
 
0199558019
Издатель
 
Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, Inc.
Категория
 
Разное

Описание:

What is the current and future role of international environmental law in directing and controlling the conduct of business enterprises, particularly multinational corporations? This book responds to this topical question by identifying corporate accountability standards and discussing their implementation by international organizations. This is the first book to examine systematically all international sources of corporate accountability standards with specific reference to environmental protection and to elaborate on their theoretical and practical implications for international environmental law. The book argues that although international environmental law does not bind multinational corporations and other business entities, growing international practice points to the emergence of legal standards. These standards allow adapting and translating inter-State obligations embodied in international environmental law into specific normative benchmarks to determine the legitimacy of...

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