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2. Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery: US Policy Options in the Case of Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clemens,Michael (Author) and Velayudhan,Tejaswi (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2011
- Published:
- Center for Global Development
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 4 p., The United States should take modest steps to create a legal channel for limited numbers of people fleeing natural disasters overseas to enter the United States. This would address two related problems: the lack of any systematic US policy to help the growing numbers of people displaced across borders by natural disasters and the inability of US humanitarian relief efforts to reduce systemic poverty or sustainably improve victims' livelihoods. The aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake presents a compelling case study of the administrative and legislative ways the US government could address both problems. Migration is already a proven and powerful force for reducing Haitians' poverty. A few modest changes in the US approach could greatly aid Haiti's recovery.
3. Strategic organizational drivers of corporate environmental responsibility in the Caribbean hotel industry
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shah,Kalim U. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Nov 2011
- Published:
- Germany: Springer-Verlag
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Policy Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(4) : 321-344
- Notes:
- This study identifies strategic organizational drivers of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) in the Caribbean hotel sector. Hotels face institutional pressures that question their environmental legitimacy, competitive pressures that force market re-positioning decisions and constraints/advantages based on their resources and capabilities for managing CER. Empirical evidence collected here suggests that CER improves when hotels declare environmental policies; target eco-conscious tourists; are foreign owned; affiliated to MNCs; and experience healthy financial performance. The latter three factors also enable the implementation of environmental policies thereby strengthening CER. They play no such role in how market re-positioning strategies impact CER. Neither did strategic targeting of luxury tourists affect CER. These findings are useful to policy makers in tourism-dependent economies where CER is intrinsically tied to sustainable development and the tourism product is so dependent on the quality of the natural environment in which it is immersed.