Essays about: "transnational corporations"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 38 essays containing the words transnational corporations.
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21. Climate Crimes : Climate change and deforestation: a case-study of state-corporate crime in Peru
University essay from Stockholms universitet/LatinamerikainstitutetAbstract : During the last decades, climate change studies have been focusing more intensely on its anthopocenic essence, as the consequence of production and consumption patterns that require the intensive exploitation of the environment. In line with this school of thought, and new generations of studies on environmental crime, this work aims to present the environmentally and climate-related issues arising from land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon; focusing on those casual mechanisms developed from the collusion between Peruvian-economic policies and new private actors such as transnational corporations (TNCs). READ MORE
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22. Nestlé and the Global Water Governance Arena
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografiAbstract : The future of global water supply and availability is one of the most important questions facing life on earth today, and experts agree that the most pressing angle to approach the question from is its governance. However, water represents one of the worlds broadest and most complex fields of governance due to its cross thematic and cross-boundary reach, as well as an increase in new actors through privatisation and transnational corporate influence. READ MORE
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23. A Global Governance Shift in Development : A study on how transnational corporation´s CSR initiative can address Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining and how that can facilitate development
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Abstract : Through globalization non-state actors including transnational corporations (TNC), have taken on a more important global governance role from the nation state, where they through their CSR initiatives, impact social issues surrounding development. There are however conflicting views whether CSR could contribute to development in the society. READ MORE
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24. A UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Bridging the Gap for Corporate Responsibility
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Since the 1970’s there has been several attempts within the UN at drafting a binding instrument on business and human rights. Up until today, none of the attempts at adopting binding standards have succeeded, with the only successful initiative being the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – a voluntary set of guiding principles meant to further the respect for human rights among both states and businesses. READ MORE
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25. Reaching the 2014 UN New York Declaration on Forests Goals, using satellites to monitor global value chains
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : This master thesis in geography investigates how remote sens- ing can be used in Transnational Corporations (TNC) global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The study aims to delineate an accurate method in remote sensing to be used to monitor deforestation in global value chains. READ MORE