Corporate social responsibility: a strategy to promote and guarantee the protection of the fundamental right to a healthy and balanced environment

Tacca C.A.A.; de la Cruz Huanca O. · Revista de Derecho Ambiental(Chile) (2022) · DOI: 10.5354/0719-4633.2022.66370

Resumen

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) contributes to sustainable development. It ensures the presence of business activity with positive impacts on society and its environment. Its main feature is voluntary compliance because it is an ethical business practice. This paper, however, analyzes and postulates CSR as a mandatory mandate in the constitutional state, i.e. compliance with it is not a matter of good will or ethical practice. Rather, it is a tool and strategy capable of promoting care for the fundamental right to a healthy and balanced environment, so companies must implement it. More over, CSR legitimizes the development of business activities, especially those of an extractive nature because it is often a source of conflict and conflict of interest

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa