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From unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the
failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive
industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a
pervasive aspect of the global economy. Advocates have long called
upon states, as the primary duty bearers and enforcers of human
rights, to hold corporations directly accountable for violations
committed throughout the supply chain. More recently, many business
and human rights advocates have considered the development and
enforcement of private regulatory initiatives (PRIs) to certify
that actors along the supply chain conform to certain codes of
conduct. Many advocates see these PRIs as holding the potential to
create better outcomes-whether for workers, affected communities,
or the environment-within a global economy structured by supply
chain capitalism. This volume brings together academics and
practitioners from a number of regions throughout the world to
engage in theoretical analysis, case study exploration, and
reflection on a variety of PRIs. Theorizing outward from the work
of practitioners and activists on the ground, the book brings
essential but often overlooked questions to the scholarly debates
on business, human rights, and global governance. Ultimately, the
contributions coalesce around one basic claim: that the
inequalities and disparities of power and wealth that are a key
characteristic of the contemporary global economy can also mark the
origins and operation of PRIs, and do so to varying degrees. The
collection highlights the need for discussions about labor,
environmental, and other human rights accountability to be situated
within a broader analysis of the political economy of contemporary
supply chain capitalism. It seeks to enrich discussions of PRIs by
bringing into the conversation concerns about distributive justice
and political economy.
From unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the
failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive
industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a
pervasive aspect of the global economy. Advocates have long called
upon states, as the primary duty bearers and enforcers of human
rights, to hold corporations directly accountable for violations
committed throughout the supply chain. More recently, many business
and human rights advocates have considered the development and
enforcement of private regulatory initiatives (PRIs) to certify
that actors along the supply chain conform to certain codes of
conduct. Many advocates see these PRIs as holding the potential to
create better outcomes-whether for workers, affected communities,
or the environment-within a global economy structured by supply
chain capitalism. This volume brings together academics and
practitioners from a number of regions throughout the world to
engage in theoretical analysis, case study exploration, and
reflection on a variety of PRIs. Theorizing outward from the work
of practitioners and activists on the ground, the book brings
essential but often overlooked questions to the scholarly debates
on business, human rights, and global governance. Ultimately, the
contributions coalesce around one basic claim: that the
inequalities and disparities of power and wealth that are a key
characteristic of the contemporary global economy can also mark the
origins and operation of PRIs, and do so to varying degrees. The
collection highlights the need for discussions about labor,
environmental, and other human rights accountability to be situated
within a broader analysis of the political economy of contemporary
supply chain capitalism. It seeks to enrich discussions of PRIs by
bringing into the conversation concerns about distributive justice
and political economy.
In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green
Economy, Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
(REDD+) scheme operates to reorganise social relations and to
establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global
South, in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while
further marginalising others. In accessible prose that draws on
interdisciplinary insights, Dehm demonstrates how, through the
creation of new legal relations, including property rights and
contractual obligations, new forms of transnational authority over
forested areas in the Global South are being constituted. This
important work should be read by anyone interested in a critical
analysis of international climate law and policy that offers
insights into questions of political economy, power, and unequal
authority.
For those troubled by environmental harm on a global scale and its
deeply unequal effects, this book explains how international law
structures ecological degradation and environmental injustice while
claiming to protect the environment. It identifies how central
legal concepts such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, territory,
development, environment, labour and human rights make inaccurate
and unsustainable assumptions about the natural world and
systemically reproduce environmental degradation and injustice. To
avert socioecological crises, we must not only unpack but radically
rework our understandings of nature and its relationship with law.
We propose more sustainable and equitable ways to remake law's
relationship with nature by drawing on diverse disciplines and
sociocultural traditions that have been marginalized within
international law. Influenced by Third World Approaches to
International Law (TWAIL), postcolonialism and decoloniality, and
inspired by Indigenous knowledges, cosmology, mythology and
storytelling, this book lays the groundwork for an epistemological
shift in the way humans conceptualize the relationship between law
and nature.
In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green
Economy, Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
(REDD+) scheme operates to reorganise social relations and to
establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global
South, in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while
further marginalising others. In accessible prose that draws on
interdisciplinary insights, Dehm demonstrates how, through the
creation of new legal relations, including property rights and
contractual obligations, new forms of transnational authority over
forested areas in the Global South are being constituted. This
important work should be read by anyone interested in a critical
analysis of international climate law and policy that offers
insights into questions of political economy, power, and unequal
authority.
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