Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon

ISBN-13: 9781032087931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str.

Rebecca Ray; Kevin P. Gallagher; Cynthia A. Sanborn

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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 Pacífico, Peru