... environmental assessment collective rights human rights Indigenous peoples natural resources territories self-determination culture recognition discrimination free prior informed consent environmental impact assessments This chapter focuses on intra-State benefit-sharing in relation to the human...

...This chapter presents case studies that demonstrate the importance of soft norms in moulding behaviour of states and non-state actors. The case studies cover the UN General Assembly ban on driftnet fishing, the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides...

... subjected communities to extraordinary risk of harm, in disregard of the prudential principle, and which violated their autonomy by denying them meaningful opportunity to give prior informed consent. Moreover, economists engaged in “reverse discounting” by failing to give sufficient attention to short-term...

..., and traditional knowledge (environmental and socio-cultural impact assessments, free prior informed consent, fair and equitable benefit-sharing). The chapter also discusses other international standards of corporate environmental responsibility with regard to protected areas, and the sustainable use of natural...

...In this chapter, Kees Jansen and Milou Dubois analyze the historical evolution, institutionalization, and effects of information disclosure in global pesticide governance. Through analysis of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals...

... a company and communities. Sustainable Mining Cultural heritage assessments sustainability models robust compliance mechanisms Stake holder engagement sustainability leadership biodiversity conservation project life cycle prior informed consent equator principle aboriginal communities Cultural...

..., Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen The Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International...

..., the chapter explores the principles of nonmaleficence (or the prudential principle, as represented by the Hippocratic dictum Primum non Nocere, or “First do no Harm,” and the “precautionary principle”), and autonomy (and the associated principle of “prior informed consent”). It also explores...