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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Business and the environment

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  Lightening the lode: a guide to responsible large-scale mining

  Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, Washington, 2000

  This document offers recommendations for responsible metal mining, to help guide the appropriate siting and development of large-scale mineral development in sensitive environments, such as tropical forests.
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  A practical guide to good practice: managing environmental and social issues in the accommodations sector

  Tour Operators Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development, 2003

  This handbook for accommodation providers is organised by issues. It provides an overview of ten environmental and social issues that the authors consider critical to the long-term success of the accommodations sector. For each issue, they offer a brief summary, the rationale for good practices and examples of what hotels around the world are doing.
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  Oil for nothing: multinational corporations, environmental destruction, death and impunity in the Niger Delta

  Global Exchange, 2000

  This paper reports the findings of a US delegation to the Niger Delta to investigate the environmental and human rights record of oil corporations.Evidence shows that the oil companies operating in Nigeria have not only disregarded their responsibility towards the environment but have acted in complicity with the military’s repression of Nigerian citizens.
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  Whose business?: a handbook on corporate responsibility for human rights and the environment

  Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2002

  This handbook aims to provide an introduction to the key issues driving efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and accountability worldwide.
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  "Blowing the whistle" and the case for cruise certification: a matter of environmental and social justice under international law

  Oceans Blue Foundation, 2002

  In the context of a number of complaints being made against cruise companies' environmental and social responsibility, this report calls for certification of companies by an independent body in order to bring credibility to the claims made by many cruise corporations of environmental and social compliance with laws and ethics.The author outlines recent cases of 'whistle blowing' from within and
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  Business and biodiversity: the handbook for corporate action

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  The handbook makes the case for integrating biodiversity considerations and actions into daily activities and planning of businesses.
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  Global trade and consumer choices: coral reefs in crisis

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002

  The document contains five papers presented at a symposium.The first presents an overview of the value of coral reef ecosystems to developing countries the impacts of international trade on coral reefs and local communitiesthe role of the U.S.
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  Eskom: corporate powerhouse or green company?

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Eskom will be South Africa's number one Corporate Environmentalism Exhibit, during the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, despite having contravened two of the Global Compact principles.The author details the negative behaviour of Eskom.
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  Eco-labelling: overview and implications for developing countries

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2001

  This policy brief attempts to provide a brief introduction to eco-labelling and some of its implications for developing countries.
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  Corporate environmental responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: the potential and limits of voluntary initiatives

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001

  Assesses the influences that encourage voluntary environmental initiatives, the types of action taken and the extent to which these may substitute for other forms of environmental regulation. It begins with a review of the motivations thought to encourage voluntary initiatives over other ways of promoting environmental improvement.

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