Spaces of Responsibility

Spaces of Responsibility
Author: Diana Ayeh
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110690160

Spaces of Responsibility explores the role of ethics in (re)ordering extractive relations under the global condition. Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso’s industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical examination, offering new insights into global mining capitalism. Corporate concession-making practices, the implementation of (national) mining legislation, and civil society interventions in mining areas all contribute in different ways to the dialectics of the global. Accordingly, the ongoing territorialization of mining investment often has considerable impacts on the well-being of populations in the Global South. At the same time, multinational corporations today cannot completely distance or isolate themselves from the political, economic, and social contexts they are interacting in and with. Drawing on theoretical debates about the links between resource extraction and socio-economic development, multi-scalar negotiations of ethics in mining governance are ethnographically retraced. In terms of gains and benefits, these negotiations manifest themselves spatially, providing access for some actors while excluding others.

Spaces of Responsibility

Spaces of Responsibility
Author: Diana Ayeh
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783110689969

An empirical study of Burkina Faso's industrial gold mining sector, this title analyzes the (spatial) complexity of extractive economies and their link to socio-economic developments. Drawing on theoretical debates on the links between resource ex

State Accountability for Space Debris

State Accountability for Space Debris
Author: Peter Stubbe
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2017-11-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004314083

In State Accountability for Space Debris Peter Stubbe examines the legal consequences of space debris pollution which, he argues, is a global environmental concern. The study finds that the customary ‘no harm’ rule and Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty obligate States to prevent the generation of debris and that the international community as a whole has a legitimate interest in their compliance. A breach of these obligations entails the responsibility of a State and compensation must be provided for damage caused by space debris. The author treats responsibility and liability separately and thoroughly scrutinizes both legal regimes with the help of common analytical elements. Finally, Peter Stubbe argues that a comprehensive traffic management system is required so as to ensure the safe and sustainable use of outer space.

Space of Human Rights in Corporate Social Responsibility

Space of Human Rights in Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: ANTRA PANDIT
Publisher: PRITHIVI RAJ
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2020-06-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

There are arguments by jurists that Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights can not walk parallel in same footing. One branch has to be compromise with other i.e Society & Business can not act in well manner concurrently. The Authors tried to find out the possible ways where these two concepts can be settled parallel.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
Author: Lorenzo Sacconi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230302114

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the advances from behavioural economics.

The Origins of Responsibility

The Origins of Responsibility
Author: François Raffoul
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2010-04-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253221730

François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.

Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience

Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience
Author: Juha Kotilainen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429650302

While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global perspective. The book introduces a more dynamic idea of sustainability in evaluating mineral extraction and its impacts, and provides a spatialized understanding of the evolution of the extractive industries to help visualise the interlinkages across space, regions and scales. Professor Kotilainen responds to these theoretical challenges by analysing the potential for resilience of mining activities from multiple perspectives across scales, exploring why it is only possible to achieve temporary balance and stability for the whole resource extraction system. Taking a global perspective, the book explores the interlinkages of the industry, investigates the similarities and differences in how the industry operates and examines the social and environmental impacts it has. By providing an explicitly theoretically informed analysis of the state of the extractive industries, this text will appeal to a wide range of scholars with an interdisciplinary interest in the extractive industries and natural resource management, including human geographers and social scientists with a focus on the relations of humans and societies with their physical environments.

The Age of Responsibility

The Age of Responsibility
Author: Yascha Mounk
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0674978293

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Responsibility—which once meant the moral duty to help and support others—has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on political theory and moral philosophy, Yascha Mounk shows why this re-imagining of personal responsibility is pernicious—and suggests how it might be overcome. “This important book prompts us to reconsider the role of luck and choice in debates about welfare, and to rethink our mutual responsibilities as citizens.” —Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice “A smart and engaging book... Do we so value holding people accountable that we are willing to jeopardize our own welfare for a proper comeuppance?” —New York Times Book Review “An important new book... [Mounk] mounts a compelling case that political rhetoric...has shifted over the last half century toward a markedly punitive vision of social welfare.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A terrific book. The insight at its heart—that the conception of responsibility now at work in much public rhetoric and policy is both punitive and ill-conceived—is very important and should be widely heeded.” —Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene

Workplace Safety Manual v1.5

Workplace Safety Manual v1.5
Author: Dean Isaacson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2012-11-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1300441712

A safety manual and accident prevention program are the foundation of a safety program but they do not complete it. A complete safety program includes the policies herein in addition to training classes, safety committees and meetings, medical examinations, organized employment and injury reports, safety bulletin boards, management communications, environmental policies, proper maintenance of equipment, observation of processes and procedures for on-site and remote sites operations, safety inspections and such other practices. The most important component, however, is for the employer and employee to share an attitude of safety.