Synopses & Reviews
The rhetoric of corporate environmental responsibility has been quite positive in industrialized countries, and has even extended to developing countries, but very little is known about the extent of concrete changes in the environmental performance of big business. Through this pioneering set of studies which provide hard data on corporate environmental records, the author asserts that if sustainable development is to become a reality, then transnational corporations must take their environmental responsibilities seriously.
About the Author
Peter Utting is a project coordinator at the United Nations resesarch Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards Corporate Environmental Responsibility?--Peter Utting *
I: The Environmental Record of the Private Sector: Selected Cases * The Greening of Business in Mexico--David Barkin * Environmental Management as an Indicator of Business Responsibility in Central America--Lawrence Pratt & Emily D. Fintel * Bioprospecting in Costa Rica: Facing New Dimensions of Social and Environmental Responsibility--Silvia Rodríguez and Maria Antonieta Camacho * The Environmental and Social Effects of Corporate Environmentalism in the Brazilian Pulp Industry--Ricardo Carrere * Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: The Potential and Limits of Voluntary Initiatives--Martin Perry & Sanjeev Singh *
II: Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Mechanisms and Strategies * Disturbing Development: Conflicts Between Corporate Environmentalism, the International Economic Order, and Sustainability--Richard Welford * Environmental Regulation of Transnational Corporations--Needs and Prospects--Michael Hansen * Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: What Role for "Self-regulatory" and "Co-regulatory" Policy Instruments in South Africa?--Jonathan Hanks * New Partnerships for Sustainable Development: The Changing Nature of Business--NGO Relations--David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell * Towards Civil Regulation: NGOs and the Politics of Corporate Environmentalism--Jem Bendell and David F. Murphy * Corporate Environmentalism in the South: Assessing the Limits and Prospects--Peter Utting
Introduction: Towards Corporate Environmental Responsibility?--Peter Utting * I: The Environmental Record of the Private Sector: Selected Cases * The Greening of Business in Mexico--David Barkin * Environmental Management as an Indicator of Business Responsibility in Central America--Lawrence Pratt & Emily D. Fintel * Bioprospecting in Costa Rica: Facing New Dimensions of Social and Environmental Responsibility--Silvia Rodríguez and Maria Antonieta Camacho * The Environmental and Social Effects of Corporate Environmentalism in the Brazilian Pulp Industry--Ricardo Carrere * Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: The Potential and Limits of Voluntary Initiatives--Martin Perry & Sanjeev Singh * II: Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Mechanisms and Strategies * Disturbing Development: Conflicts Between Corporate Environmentalism, the International Economic Order, and Sustainability--Richard Welford * Environmental Regulation of Transnational Corporations--Needs and Prospects--Michael Hansen * Promoting Corporate Environmental Responsibility: What Role for "Self-regulatory" and "Co-regulatory" Policy Instruments in South Africa?--Jonathan Hanks * New Partnerships for Sustainable Development: The Changing Nature of Business--NGO Relations--David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell * Towards Civil Regulation: NGOs and the Politics of Corporate Environmentalism--Jem Bendell and David F. Murphy * Corporate Environmentalism in the South: Assessing the Limits and Prospects--Peter Utting