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Global Project Finance, Human Rights and Sustainable Development.
What are the implications of project finance for human rights and sustainable development?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I The framework; 1 An introduction to the issues; The elements; Project finance; The standards for evaluating social impacts of PF; 'Basic' and 'human' rights and duties; Comparing rights-based development and rights-based investment; The chapters to come; 2 The linkages between project finance and sustainable development; Introduction; The concept of sustainable development; FDI and the role of project finance; The impacts of FDI on sustainable development; FDI and the economic dimension of sustainable development.
- FDI and the environmental dimensionFDI impacts on the pattern of resource use (structural effect); FDI and the social dimension of sustainable development; Summary of the evidence; Does financing through PF have an influence?; Impact on host country policies and ability to pursue sustainable development; Civil society scrutiny and policies of financial institutions; Conclusions; 3 Project finance and the relevant human rights; Introduction; Extractive industries; Extractive industries and conflict; Building infrastructure; Water and sewage; Health care.
- Initiatives for control: the EP and the IFC's project standardsConclusion; Bibliography; 4 Applying international environmental principles to project-financed transnational investment agreements; Introduction; International law for global environmental protection?; Sustainable development and other applicable international environmental principles; The integration principle; The preventive and precautionary principles; The polluter-pays principle; The principle of environmental impact assessment (EIA).
- The principles of access to environmental information, public participation in the environmental decision-making process, and access to environmental justiceA taxonomic representation of international and transnational, non-state actor agreements; Case study of a transnational, non-state actor agreement: the EP; The application of international environmental principles to the EP; Principle 1: Review and categorization; Principle 2: Social and environmental assessment (SEA); Principle 3: Applicable social and environmental standards; Principle 4: Action Plan and Management System.
- Principle 5: Consultation and disclosurePrinciple 6: Grievance mechanism; Principle 7: Independent review; Principle 8: Covenants; Principle 9: Independent monitoring and reporting; Principle 10: EPFI reporting; The internalization of international environmental principles within transnational non-state actors?; Conclusions; Part II Special topics; 5 Risk management, project finance and rights-based development; The question; The relevant elements in PF; Risk management strategies in PF and their potential impacts; Three components of risk management; Risk avoidance; Risk allocation.