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 eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Environment.; Public international law.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Public International Law.

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 lending—programs and projects would go beyond economic development to “sustainable development.” More than two decades later, efforts to green the bank seem pall...