Recently added articles from Greener Management International:

Editorial.(extractive industry)(Editorial)

Dec 22, 2007; Wehrmeyer, Walter ... THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY HAS A RICH history of debate about its environmental and social credentials; and it also has a major and complex role to play with regard to the environmental significance of virtually all products' downstream ecological rucksacks. Furthermore, there are substantial ...

Introduction.

Dec 22, 2007; Ali, Saleem H. ... THE LITERATURE ON CORPORATE SOCIAL responsibility (CSR) is vast and spans numerous disciplines. However, few attempts have been made to study the specificities of industrial sectors when attempting to develop and implement CSR principles. Yet, given the distinctive characteristics of ...

Corporate social responsibility: a unifying discourse for the mining industry?

Dec 22, 2007; Hutchins, Margot J. ... The public perception of mining as an economic activity that generates harmful environmental impacts has generated both a corporate discourse of social responsibility (CSR) to legitimise mining activities and also anti-mining discourses. Both discourses use science to support their claims, ...

Human rights accountability of the minerals development industry *.

Dec 22, 2007; Dias, Ayesha ... The mineral development industry, albeit essential, continues to engender human rights and environmental violations in host communities. This paper discusses four approaches to securing corporate responsibility to prevent and redress such violations. It first examines the effectiveness of ...

Environmental militarism: Burma's extractive industries *.

Dec 22, 2007; Smith, Matthew ... Natural gas projects in Burma have resulted in human rights abuses and environmental degradation, exposed by two high-profile lawsuits brought by ethnic villagers against Unocal Corporation and Total. These cases are important for the future of holding non-state actors accountable for ...

Biodiversity and the extractive industry: innovative practices and remaining challenges.

Dec 22, 2007; Grigg, Annelisa ... There is a significant overlap between the world's areas of high biodiversity, oil and gas deposits and mineral reserves. This poses a potential conflict between the need to access resources for development and the need to conserve biodiversity. A number of sectoral initiatives and ...

Care for people and creation: the role of US Christian Institutional shareholder activists in extractive-industry CSR *.

Dec 22, 2007; Van Buren, Harry J., III ... Recently, there has been considerable academic attention given to the role that religious institutions play in pressuring companies and industries toward greater corporate social responsibility (CSR). One area of concern for religious institutions is the behaviour of extractive-industry ...

Diary of events: November 2007--April 2008.(Brief article)(Calendar)

Dec 22, 2007 ... A selective listing of key conferences, seminars and exhibitions in the field of business and sustainability [??] 11-14 November 2007 [??] Washington DC, USA Energy Efficiency Global Forum and Exposition [people] Pam Turner, EE Global Forum Manager [phone] ...