1st Edition

Corporate Environmental Accountability in Nigeria A Global, National and Regional Study in the Age of Globalization

By Felix Moses Edoho Copyright 2024
340 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis. The author, Felix Moses Edoho, Sr., examines the issues at the various global, national, and regional levels. In Part I the book examines the issues at the global... Read more

Contents

 

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

 

1          Global Environment Governance and Challenges of Corporate Environmental Accountability

PART I:  Global Context of Environmental Crisis in the Age of Globalization

2          Overview of Global Environmental Challenges and Accountability

3          Conceptual Approaches and Theoretical Framework

4          Transnational Corporations and Corporate Environmental Accountability

5          Global Environmental Governance and Movement for Corporate Accountability

 

PART II:  National Context of Environmental Governance and Corporate Accountability

6          Nigerian Political Economy and Environmental Governance           

7          Legal and Regulatory Architecture for Environmental Governance and Accountability

8          The Nigerian Petroleum Industry and Environmental Governance

9          Niger Delta Region: Petroleum Exploitation and Corporate Ecological Terrorism

 

PART III: Regional Context of Environmental Governance and Corporate Accountability

  10         The Tragedy of Gas Flaring and Venting: The Gift of Death to the Niger Delta Region 

  11         Planning and Management of Petroleum Pipeline Systemsand Environmental Hazards

  12         Environmental Martyrdom: The Quest for Environmental Justice and Corporate Environmental Accountability

Index

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Felix Moses Edoho, Sr., PhD, is professor of Business & Management at the Lincoln University of Missouri, Jefferson City, Missouri.