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Environmental management accounting : case studies in South-East Asian companies
\"Sustainable development will not happen without substantial contributions from and leading roles of companies and business organizations. This requires the provision of adequate information on corporate social and ecological impacts and performance. For the last decade, progress has been made in developing and adapting accounting mechanisms to these needs but significant work is still needed to tackle the problems associated with conventional accounting. Until recently, research on environmental management accounting (EMA) has concentrated on developed countries and on cost-benefit analysis of implementing individual EMA tools. Using a comparative case study design, this book seeks to redress the balance and improve the understanding of EMA in management decision-making in emerging countries, focussing specifically on South-East Asian companies. Drawing on 12 case studies, taken from a variety of industries, Environmental Management Accounting: Case Studies of South-East Asian Companies explores the relationship between decision situations and the motivation for, and barriers to, the application of clusters of EMA tools as well as the implementation process itself. This book will be useful to scholars interested in the environmental and sustainability management accounting research field and those considering specific approaches to EMA within emerging economies.\"--Publisher's website.
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Technoscience and Environmental Justice
Over the course of nearly thirty years, the environmental justice movement has changed the politics of environmental activism and influenced environmental policy. In the process, it has turned the attention of environmental activists and regulatory agencies to issues of pollution, toxics, and human health as they affect ordinary people, especially people of color. This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice activists and issues, exploring the transformative potential of these interactions. Technoscience and Environmental Justice first examines the scientific practices and identities of technical experts who work with environmental justice organizations, whether by becoming activists themselves or by sharing scientific information with communities. It then explore scientists' and engineers' activities in such mainstream scientific institutions as regulatory agencies and universities, where environmental justice concerns have been (partially) institutionalized as a response to environmental justice activism. All of the chapters grapple with the difficulty of transformation that experts face, but the studies also show how environmental justice activism has created opportunities for changing technical practices and, in a few cases, has even accomplished significant transformations.The hardcover edition does not include a dust jacket.
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Social movements contesting natural resource development
\"Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development presents numerous case studies exploring questions concerning rural social movements confronting land grabs, infrastructure corridors, mines, dams, resource processing plants, and pipelines. Natural resource development takes multiple forms such as deforestation and creation of plantations, dams, mines, pipelines, oil and gas drilling, fracking, many of which are driven by economic valuations, whist social and environmental effects are given limited consideration. In this volume authors discuss the emergence, process and outcomes of social movements with respect to these natural resource development projects, including examples of confrontation seeking to either block developments or promote alternative development approaches, such as agritourism. The examples taken from Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America demonstrate the diversity of struggles stimulated by natural resource development, including both immediate and longer-term effects, repertoires of action, political and cultural work. Taken together the case studies provide a rich overview of current movements engaged in resisting the neoliberal agenda of global resource exploitation. This book will be key reading for those interested in social movements, natural resource development, environmental policy, international development, rural development or global development. It will also be of interest to activists engaged in mobilizations stimulated by natural resource development projects\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Large mines and the community : socioeconomic and environmental effects in Latin America, Canada, and Spain
For centuries, communities have been founded or shaped based upon their access to natural resources and today, in our globalizing world, major natural resource developments are spreading to more remote areas. Mining operations are a good example: they have a profound impact on local communities and are often the first industry in a remote region. However, whereas an enormous amount has been written about the macroeconomic effects of the mining industry, there has been practically no in-depth analysis of the comprehensive effects of large mines on their host communities, especially in developing countries. In this book, researchers from Bolivia, Chile, and Peru present and analyze the environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic effects of large mining operations in their respective countries, as well as the processes that led to the observed effects. The book also presents a case study of the longest continually operating mine in the world, the Almadén mercury mine in Spain, and an overview of the experience of mining communities in Canada, one of the most important mining countries of the 20th century. A synthesis chapter draws together recommendations for best practice, intended to provide guidance to communities, companies, and governments for future and ongoing mining and other natural resource developments. Interested readers will include individuals involved in local community development (including those in nongovernmental, bilateral, and multilateral agencies), mining company officials, staff of government mining and development agencies, and academics and researchers in economic, social, environmental, and natural resource issues.
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Environmental justice and land use conflict
Land use conflict and the role of justice -- Theories of environmental justice -- The Bulga case study -- The Namoi catchment case study : Part 1 : coal mining on the Liverpool Plains -- The Namoi catchment case study : Part 2 : coal seam gas exploration in the Narrabri Shire -- The Mercellus case study -- The search for justice in the governance of extractice resource development.
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Grandes minas y la comunidad : efectos socioeconómicos y ambientales en Latinoamérica, Canadá y España
Durante siglos, las comunidades se forjaron o configuraron con base en su acceso a los recursos naturales. En la actualidad, en nuestro mundo globalizado, la explotación de los recursos naturales se desarrolla en gran escala y se extiende a zonas cada vez más remotas. Ejemplo de ello son las operaciones mineras, las cuales tienen un profundo impacto en las comunidades locales y pueden llegar a constituir la industria más importante de una región remota. Sin embargo, mientras el acervo de literatura sobre los efectos macroeconómicos de la industría minera es enorme, no se ha emprendido un análisis a profundidad de los efectos integrales de las grandes operaciones mineras en las comunidades donde se llevan a cabo, en particular en países en desarrollo. Investigadores de Bolivia, Chile y Perú presentan y analizan en este libro los efectos ambientales, culturales y socioeconómicos de las grandes operaciones mineras en sus países de origen, así como los procesos que condujeron a los efectos observados. Asimismo el libro ofrece un estudio de caso de la operación minera que durante más tiempo y sin interrupción ha desarrollado actividades en el mundo: la mina de mercurio Almadén, localizada en España. El libro también presenta una visión global de la experiencia de comunidades mineras de Canadá, uno de los países mineros más importantes de siglo XX. Un capítulo de síntesis reúne recomendaciones de mejores prácticas, en un intento por fijar directrices a las comunidades, compañías y gobiernos respecto de explotaciones mineras y de otros dearrollos de recursos minerales en curso y futuros. Las personas involucradas en desarrollo comunitario en el ámbito local (entre ellas las personas miembros de organizaciones no gubernamentales, organismos bilaterales y multilaterales) serán los lectores de este libro, además de ejecutivos de las compañías mineras,
funcionarios gubernamentales y personal de las organismos de desarrollo, académicos e investigadores de temas económicos, sociales, ambientales y de recursos naturales.
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Mining and the environment : case studies from the Americas
The legacy of the mining industry is destruction of land and pollution of air and water. Conventional wisdom also suggests that international mining firms will locate where environmental legislation is most lax. However, this picture - of mining firms operating with little regard for nature or local populations - is no longer accurate. Protection of the environment, of mine workers, and of nearby communities has become nearly as much a concern as putting ''rock in the box.''. Mining and the Environment shows how mining firms that are the most efficient in extracting minerals are also better at protecting the environment. The book presents case studies from Chile, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, and the United States, and provides an excellent overview of the interactions between environmental regulation, innovation, and sustainable development. It shows that the environmental performance of mining firms is not entirely dependent on government legislation. Corporate attitudes are changing, government policies are changing, civil society is changing, and the business environment is changing. Mining and the Environment examines these changes and what they mean for the future of the mining industry and the well-being of our environment.
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Labor-environmental Coalitions
In 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international solidarity from environmental and religious organizations. The local coalition which helped break the lockout was maintained and expanded in the 1990s. This alliance is one of numerous labor-community coalitions to emerge increasingly over the past 20 years.\"\"Labor-Environmental Coalitions: Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region\"\" traces the development of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor Project from 1985 to the present, within the context of a long history of divisions between labor and community in the U.S. The Project continued after the lockout, thriving during 1990s, expanding from one community to four counties to include 20 local member organizations, and broadening its agenda from the original jobs crisis and pollution problems to address a wide range of worker, environmental health, and economic justice issues.\"\" Labor-Environmental Coalitions\"\" explores the dynamics of the Louisiana coalition to offer lessons for other coalition efforts. The book seeks to understand coalitions as a necessary strategy to counteract the dominant forces of capitalist development. The author contends that the Labor-Neighbor Project, like labor-community coalitions generally, created a unique blend of politics shaped by the geographic nature industry's politics; by the relative openness of government; and by the class experience of labor and community members.The Louisiana Project demonstrates that for labor-community coalitions to thrive they must broaden their agenda, strengthen their leadership and coalition-building skills, and develop access to multiscale resources. The author argues that for labor-community coalitions to have longer term political impact, they should adopt an explicitly progressive approach by building a broader class and cultural leadership, and by demanding state and corporate accountability on economic, public health, and environmental justice issues.
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