The impact of environmental damage on human rights - whether civil and political rights or welfare and labor rights - is becoming ever more widely appreciated. It has direct and important bearing on the behavior of companies, especially transnationals, governments and other organizations. Out of the conflicts are emerging new norms of conduct.

The contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the issues and show how new standards that protect rights and liberties can be established. An original and groundbreaking volume.

Contributors include D Brown; P Girot; P Hirsch; F MacKay; V Mischenko; J Mugabe; E Rosenthal; A Sari; R Thornton; G Tumushabe; S Wang; C Wu.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Globalization of Economies, Globalization of Norms? International Law and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; PART I CONFLICTS OVER MINERAL AND OIL Development: Multinationals, the State and the Maroon Community, Suriname; Mining Conflicts and Emerging Law in Ghana; Offshore International Oil Leases, Russian Far East; PART II CONFLICTS OVER DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES: The Indonesia-Singapore-Malaysia Development Project; The Nam Theun Dam in Laos; Globalization and the Pan-American Highway; Foreign Waste Dumping, China; PART III CONFLICTS OVER ACCESS TO LAND: Environment, Land and the Legacy of Apartheid, South Africa; Ecological Roots of Conflicts in Eastern and Central Africa.