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

• Main Author: Rich, Bruce (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Environment.; Economic geography.; Public international law.; Climate change.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Sustainable development.; Climate Change.; Public International Law.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Sustainable Development.; Economic Geography.

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...