Sapiens lead researcher Prof. Olga Martin-Ortega and ESR Laura Treviño-Lozano co-edited forthcoming book on Sustainable Public Procurement of Infrastructure and Human Rights: Beyond Building Green (Edward Elgar Spring 2023). 

This book brings together the contributions from leading scholars and legal practitioners. It addresses a gap in the literature on the role of human rights in infrastructure development, particular focus is given to highly complex contracts, such as public-private partnerships (PPPs). Chapters analyse key human rights issues across the life cycle of projects using case studies that investigate communities, service users and workers in public procurement supply chains as human rights holders.

Further, the book explores the issues facing women as different role-players – namely as workers, service users, decision-makers and government suppliers. Case studies include procurement of healthcare infrastructure and megasporting events. The editors and authors also propose solutions and new ways forward in the advancement of the sustainable public procurement agenda, both for developed and developing countries, to deliver infrastructure that brings social return without harming human rights.

Developing more inclusive approaches to infrastructure that address rightsholders and stakeholders – including communities, workers, service users, and particularly women – this book will be a thought-provoking resource for scholars and students, as well as for human rights lawyers, advocates and policy makers alike.

The volume includes contributions of leading experts in the field George Nwangwu, Cristina Contreras, Miriam Mbah and Ama Eyo, Geo Quinot, Josua Loots, Annabel Short, Johanna Hoekstra and Luis Felipe Yanes.