Making it right: socio-environmental conditionalities in regional industrial policies

Abstract

This article discusses the need for heightened consideration of business-related human rights infringements in regional industrial policies. It discusses why human rights have been neglected in accounts of regional economic growth and proposes a novel policy agenda based on socio-environmental conditionalities. Policy-wise it also recommends that regions build new identities as socially and environmentally responsible places in order to attract investors.