Record Nr.

UNINA9910458419503321

Autore

Oshionebo Evaristus <1967->

Titolo

Regulating transnational corporations in domestic and international regimes : an African case study / / Evaristus Oshionebo

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009
©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9779-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Disciplina

343/.077096

Soggetti

International business enterprises - Law and legislation - Africa

International business enterprises - Law and legislation

Social responsibility of business - Africa

Mineral industries - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- 1. The Social Irresponsibility of Transnational Corporations in Africa's Extractive Industries -- 2. Regulation of Corporations: Competing Models -- 3. Environmental Regulation in Nigeria and Ghana: Two Case Studies of Regulatory Failure in the African Extractive Sector -- 4. Complementary Regulatory Strategies: Self-Regulation and the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria and Ghana -- 5. Multilateral African Regulatory Mechanisms -- 6. The Regulation of Transnational Corporations under International Law -- 7. International Financial Institutions as Regulatory Mechanisms: The World Bank Group and the African Extractive Sector -- 8. Extraterritorial Regulation of Transnational Corporations in Their Home Countries -- 9. Towards Effective Regulation of Transnational Corporations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Africa's natural resources have been of interest to other areas of the world for centuries. During the nineteenth-century European

colonization of Africa, raw materials such as rubber and diamonds were often extracted and exported by foreign businessmen and colonial governments. Today's transnational corporations (TNCs) continue the practice.This study explores the range of strategies for regulating the social and environmental practices of TNCs in Africa's extractive industries. While acknowledging the partial success of conventional regulatory strategies, Evaristus Oshionebo argues that the current power imbalance between TNCs and African host governments makes them impossible to enforce effectively. Rather than simply critiquing the existing systems, Oshionebo proposes that a pluralistic approach, involving government agencies, corporations, non-governmental organizations, and local community associations in the regulatory process, might provide better results in Africa.Innovative and daring, Regulating Transnational Corporations in Domestic and International Regimes offers new and practical solutions to old, entrenched problems.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392930703316

Autore

Fleetwood William <1535?-1594.>

Titolo

The office of a justice of peace [[electronic resource] ] : together with instructions, how and in what manner statutes shall be expounded. / / Written by W. Fleetwood, Esq; sometime recorder of London. Since continued, with the late acts and ordinances abridged, relating to that office

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London, : Printed by Ralph Wood, for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, and are to be sold at their shops in Fleetstreet, 1658. [i.e. 1657]

Descrizione fisica

[16], 164, [2] p

Soggetti

Justice, Administration of - England

County courts - England

Courts - Law and legislation