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The commitment to implement the goals for sustainable development places the Sustainable Development Goals implementation challenges at the center of debate since 2015. In this context, companies need to maintain and/or expand their operations in the market seeking to adapt their management practices to meet the new emerging realities. Sustainability is a recent theme in global debates, leading new definitions and redefinitions of corporate policies. Corporate policies gain particular importance in promoting the relationship engaging communities that may be affected in some way by its daily activities. This notion of inclusion deals with the need of rethinking the production’s systems operation that requires reducing environmental exploitation and friendly relationship with communities, as well as keep it as operation economically sustainable. Through exploratory research, it sought to make a conceptual study of the advances and alternatives of the relationship between corporate policies and engagement of communities in decision-making processes, with aim of stimulating society’s debate and interest by this theme that begins to gain visibility within construction’s prospects of the understanding about sustainability. The terms of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent represented a tool that closes an advanced stage of community relations to the extent that human rights are fully respected, considering the minimization of conflict and environmental disasters.
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169 deals with the basic rights of the indigenous and tribal peoples.
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Bonina, N., Meiriño, M.J., Ribeiro, J.A. (2018). Corporate Policies on Rights and Engagement of Communities: Alternatives and Advances. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63007-6_15
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