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Towards a Business, Human Rights and the Environment Framework

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  • Olga Martin-Ortega

    (School of Law and Criminology, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Greenwich, London SE10 9BD, UK)

  • Fatimazahra Dehbi

    (Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group, School of Law and Criminology, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Greenwich, London SE10 9BD, UK)

  • Valerie Nelson

    (Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham ME4 4TB, UK)

  • Renginee Pillay

    (School of Law and Criminology, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Greenwich, London SE10 9BD, UK)

Abstract

We are in the midst of an ecological crisis which has been and continues to be provoked by human-led ‘environmental degradation’ (defined for the purposes of this editorial as any harm or adverse impact caused to the environment, including climate change, the contamination of the land and water through the exposure to or dumping of toxic and hazardous substances and wastes, air pollution, the destruction of ecosystems, and the depletion of biodiversity) [...]

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  • Olga Martin-Ortega & Fatimazahra Dehbi & Valerie Nelson & Renginee Pillay, 2022. "Towards a Business, Human Rights and the Environment Framework," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-26, May.
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