The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage

by Audrey Macklin and Penelope Simons

Book Overview

This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance.

The authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of Talisman Energy's experience in Sudan, informed by their own experience as members of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan (Harker Mission). Drawing on new governance, reflexive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415334705
• ISBN13: 9780415334709
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"