| Description |
1 online resource (536 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I The framework; 1 An introduction to the issues; The elements; Project finance; The standards for evaluating social impacts of PF; 'Basic' and 'human' rights and duties; Comparing rights-based development and rights-based investment; The chapters to come; 2 The linkages between project finance and sustainable development; Introduction; The concept of sustainable development; FDI and the role of project finance; The impacts of FDI on sustainable development; FDI and the economic dimension of sustainable development |
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FDI and the environmental dimensionFDI impacts on the pattern of resource use (structural effect); FDI and the social dimension of sustainable development; Summary of the evidence; Does financing through PF have an influence?; Impact on host country policies and ability to pursue sustainable development; Civil society scrutiny and policies of financial institutions; Conclusions; 3 Project finance and the relevant human rights; Introduction; Extractive industries; Extractive industries and conflict; Building infrastructure; Water and sewage; Health care |
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Initiatives for control: the EP and the IFC's project standardsConclusion; Bibliography; 4 Applying international environmental principles to project-financed transnational investment agreements; Introduction; International law for global environmental protection?; Sustainable development and other applicable international environmental principles; The integration principle; The preventive and precautionary principles; The polluter-pays principle; The principle of environmental impact assessment (EIA) |
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The principles of access to environmental information, public participation in the environmental decision-making process, and access to environmental justiceA taxonomic representation of international and transnational, non-state actor agreements; Case study of a transnational, non-state actor agreement: the EP; The application of international environmental principles to the EP; Principle 1: Review and categorization; Principle 2: Social and environmental assessment (SEA); Principle 3: Applicable social and environmental standards; Principle 4: Action Plan and Management System |
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Principle 5: Consultation and disclosurePrinciple 6: Grievance mechanism; Principle 7: Independent review; Principle 8: Covenants; Principle 9: Independent monitoring and reporting; Principle 10: EPFI reporting; The internalization of international environmental principles within transnational non-state actors?; Conclusions; Part II Special topics; 5 Risk management, project finance and rights-based development; The question; The relevant elements in PF; Risk management strategies in PF and their potential impacts; Three components of risk management; Risk avoidance; Risk allocation |
| Summary |
What are the implications of project finance for human rights and sustainable development? |
| Notes |
Risk mitigation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Finance
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Human rights.
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Sustainable development.
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Human Rights
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sustainable development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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Human rights
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Finance
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Sustainable development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ong, David
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| ISBN |
9781139137638 |
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1139137638 |
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9781139144964 |
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1139144960 |
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1139141643 |
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9781139141642 |
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9780511974311 |
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0511974310 |
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9781107658516 |
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1107658519 |
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