CSR and the Law

There is considerable controversy about the nature, extent, and adequacy of Canadian, Latin American, and international laws used to address the environmental, social, and economic (ESE) impacts of Canadian mining activity in Latin America (CMALA), and concerning how corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the law are and could be used to address ESE issues associated with CMALA (for example, SCFAIT, 2005, 2010; Imai et al., 2007;McGee, 2009;Lemieux, 2010a). This chapter draws on publicly available accounts concerning ESE-related disputes pertaining to CMALA in order to better understand the actual and potential roles of CSR and the law in addressing ESE dimensions of CMALA. While the veracity of assertions made in publicly available accounts is open to challenge, the disputes are taken as points of departure for discussion of the sorts of ESE challenges that are associated with CMALA. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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