From extraction to emancipation : development reimagined / Raquel Aldana, Steven W. Bender, editors.

"This edited volume with a distinguished and diverse group of contributors uses Latin America, and Guatemala in particular, as a case study to examine broad gobal themes arising from development practices in emerging economies. It offers important lessons to investors and policy makers on strategies...

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Corporate Author: American Bar Association. Section of International Law (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Aldana, Raquel (Editor)
Bender, Steven (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Durham, North Carolina : The American Bar Association, Section of International Law ; Carolina Academic Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Social responsibility of business > Guatemala > Case studies.
Human rights > Guatemala > Case studies.
Human rights > Latin America > Case studies.
Corporations > Moral and ethical aspects > Guatemala > Case studies.
Investments, Foreign > Guatemala > Case studies.
Environmental justice > Guatemala > Case studies.
Sustainable development > Guatemala > Case studies.
Corporations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Environmental justice.
Human rights.
Investments, Foreign.
Social responsibility of business.
Sustainable development.
Guatemala.
Latin America.
Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:xxiv, 296 pages ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Development reimagined
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Corporate social responsibility in the Americas : fact or fiction? / Marcia Narine Weldon
  • The environment and financial institutions / Mario Peña Chacón
  • Corporations and state responsibility under the Inter-American human rights system / Christian González Chacón and Fabiana Pardi Otamendi
  • Managing deforestation in Guatemala : a lesson on forest conservation for developing nations / María Antonia Tigre
  • Rethinking environmental impact assessment in Guatemalan mining / Rachael E. Salcido
  • Community-based biomonitoring : an antidote to insufficient governmental water quality monitoring and enforcement / Karrigan Börk
  • The right to water and sanitation in Central America / Mario René Mancilla Barillas
  • When climate adaptation is imperative yet elusive : Guatemala's test for climate justice / Patricia G. Ferreira
  • The impact of mining on self-determination of rural Guatemalan communities / Julie Davies
  • The indispensable ones : a story of resistance from La Puya / Raquel Aldana
  • The Central American experience with investor protections under CAFTA / José Roberto Juárez
  • Labor as an extractive industry : critiquing the precarity of the maquiladora export model the Neoliberal era / Steven W. Bender
  • A migration story from the sugar fields of Southwest Guatemala : a case for treating corporations as persecutors under asylum and refugee law / Blake Nordahl
  • Gender violence, state action, and power and control in the Northern Triangle / Lauren Gilbert.