Foreclosing the Future The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction /

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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does just the opposite. By funding de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rich, Bruce (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Temas:
Environment.
International law.
Environmental Law.
Sustainability.
Economic geography.
Environmental Sciences.
Public International Law.
Economic Geography.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms
  • 1. Tiger Talk
  • 2. Present at the Creation
  • 3. "I Can Change the Approval Culture to an Effectiveness Culture"
  • 4. High Risk, High Reward
  • 5. The Logic Was Textbook Perfect
  • 6. Backwards into the Future
  • 7. The Brief, Broken Presidency of Paul Wolfowitz
  • 8. The Carbon Caravan
  • 9. A Market Like No Other
  • 10. Financializing Development
  • 11. Dying for Growth
  • 12. What Does It Take?
  • Notes
  • Index.

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