
Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2019
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-0-367-35244-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom.
While mega-dams, highways, and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners, the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities, going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice, and ultimately whether they are enough to stem the risks of infrastructure mega-projects. As Chinese public banks play an increasingly important role in the region, the book also demonstrates that there is a risk of governments undercutting their own standards. By contrast, this book shows that making infrastructure work for everyone involved requires mutually reinforcing networks of support and accountability among communities, governments, and development banks.
This book, led by an expert multi-disciplinary, international team, will be of considerable interest to researchers in the fields of development and development economics, geography, anthropology, and ecology, as well as practitioners in development banks and in government regulatory and foreign aid agencies.
While mega-dams, highways, and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners, the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities, going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice, and ultimately whether they are enough to stem the risks of infrastructure mega-projects. As Chinese public banks play an increasingly important role in the region, the book also demonstrates that there is a risk of governments undercutting their own standards. By contrast, this book shows that making infrastructure work for everyone involved requires mutually reinforcing networks of support and accountability among communities, governments, and development banks.
This book, led by an expert multi-disciplinary, international team, will be of considerable interest to researchers in the fields of development and development economics, geography, anthropology, and ecology, as well as practitioners in development banks and in government regulatory and foreign aid agencies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
27 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 25 s/w Zeichnungen, 49 s/w Tabellen
49 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-35244-8 (9780367352448)
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Rebecca Ray | Kevin P. Gallagher | Cynthia A. Sanborn
Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
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Rebecca Ray | Kevin P. Gallagher | Cynthia A. Sanborn
Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
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10/2019
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Rebecca Ray | Kevin P. Gallagher | Cynthia A. Sanborn
Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
E-Book
10/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€59.49
Available for download
Persons
Rebecca Ray is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, USA
Kevin P. Gallagher is Director of the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, USA
Cynthia A. Sanborn is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad del Pacifico, Peru
Kevin P. Gallagher is Director of the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, USA
Cynthia A. Sanborn is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad del Pacifico, Peru
Content
1. Standardizing Sustainable Development? Development Banks in the Andean Amazon 2. Standardizing Sustainable Development: A Comparison of Development Banks in the Americas 3. Greening Development Lending in the Americas: Trends and Determinants 4. Sustainable Development For People or With People? Safeguards and Infrastructure-Related Deforestation in the Andean Amazon, 2000-2015 5. Environmental and Social Safeguards for Infrastructure Projects in the Southern Peruvian Amazon 6. Evading Sustainable Development Standards: Case Studies on Hydroelectric Projects in Ecuador 7. The Effectiveness of the Safeguards in Place for Three Highway Projects in Bolivia 8. In their own time, on their own terms: Improving development bank project outcomes through community-centered sustainable development partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon