Corporate Responsibility (5op)

Opintojakson tunnus: OTMEVAL0011V23

Opintojakson perustiedot

Laajuus: 5 op

Opetuskieli: englanti

Osaamistavoitteet

Aim of the course is to attain in-depth knowledge of corporate responsibility both from public and private governance approach.

Sisältö

The course presents the current development of national legislation(s), EU regulation and international soft law of corporate social and environmental responsibility. Special attention is paid to the interplay of private and public governance, formal and informal rules, especially on the forest, mining and oil sectors as well as renewable energy. Examples of governance alternatives in the Arctic are taken from the Nordic countries, Alaska and Russia and analyzed with a special emphasis on the situation of indigenous peoples.

Esitietovaatimukset

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

1-5

Oppimateriaalit

Nysten-Haarala, S. – Joona, T. and Hovila, I. (2021) Wind Energy Projects and Reindeer Herders’ Rights in Finnish Lapland – A Legal Framework. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 9:1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.00037, Berman, M., Loeffler, R and Schmidt J.I. Long term Benefits to Indigenous communities of extractive industry partnerships: Evaluationg the Red Dog mine Resources Policy 66 (2020) 101609 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/resourpol

Tysiachnyouk, M. ; Petrov A. 2018. Benefit sharing in the Arctic energy sector: Perspectives on corporate policies and practices in Northern Russia and Alaska Energy Research & Social Science 39 . - p. 29 – 34. Tysiachniouk, M., Henry, L., Lamers, M & Tatenhove, J. van. 2017 Oil Extraction and Benefit Sharing in an Illiberal Context: The Nenets and Komi-Izhemtsi Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Arctic, Society & Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2017.1403666, Tysiachniouk, M.S. ; McDermott, C.L. 2016. Forest Certification with Russian characteristics Forest Policy and Economics 62 . - p. 43 - 53. Laura A. Henry, L. Nysten-Haarala, S. Tulaeva S & Tysiachniouk M. 2016. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Oil Industry in the Russian Arctic: Global Norms and Neo-Paternalism, Europe-Asia Studies, 68:8, 1340-1368, Nystén-Haarala, Soili – Klyuchnikova, Elena – Helenius, Heidi: Law and self-regulation – Substitutes and complements in gaining social acceptance? 45 Resources Policy 2015, s. 52–64. Pappila, Minna: The interplay of Russian law, indigenous people and the oil industry – a need for non-state regulation? The Yearbook of Polar Law, vol. 6, 2015, p. 120-141.

Additional readings based on the agreed topics for the seminar. e.g. Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge University Press 2012 (online) printed publication 1990 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511808678.

EU Proposal on Corporate Sustainbility Due Diligene and amending directive 2019/1937

EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive 2014 2014/95/EU

UNGP Reporting Framework UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework (ungpreporting.org)

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Equator Principles The Equator Principles_EP4_July2020 (equator-principles.com)

Equator Principles (2022) Equator Principles Association and IFC join forces to build capacity of banks on environmental and social risk management - Equator Principles Association (equator-principles.com)

Equitable Origin Standard for Responsible Energy Development Home - Energy Standards

FSC Principles FSC-STD-01-001 V5-2 FSC principles and criteria (P&C) for forest stewardship | FSC Connect

ISO ISO - Developing sustainably

Kimberley Process What is the KP | KimberleyProcess

OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises - OECD

OECD Due Diligence - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (oecd.org)