Mortgaging the Earth The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development /

• Main Author: Rich, Bruce. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Environmental law.; Sustainable development.; Environment.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Public International Law.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-515-1

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit was supposed to be a turning point for the World Bank. Environmental concerns would now play a major role in its lendingprograms and projects would go beyond economic development to sustainable development. More than two decades later, efforts to green the bank seem pall...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. The Dwelling Place of the Angels
• 2. Decade of Debacles
• 3. Brave New World at Bretton Woods
• 4. The Faustian Paradox of Robert McNamara
• 5. Greens Lay Siege to the Crystal Palace
• 6. The Emperors New Clothes
• 7. �The Castle of Contradictions
• 8. From Descartes to Chico Mendes: A Brief History of Modernity as Development
• 9. Who Shall Rule the World and How?
• 10. What on Earth Is to Be Done?
• Notes
• Index.