Bruce Rich

Mortgaging the Earth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Called a "detailed and thought-provoking look at an important subject" by The New York Times, Mortgaging the Earth analyzes the twenty year period leading up the 1992 Rio Summit. Rich offers not only an important history but critical insights about economic development that are ever-more relevant today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610915151
• Artikelnr.: 39514209

Autorenporträt

Bruce Rich is lawyer who has worked for three decades with national environmental organizations. He is an expert on public international finance and the environment. He received the United Nations Global 500 Award for environmental achievement for his research and advocacy concerning multilateral development banks. He is the author of Mortgaging the Earth and To Uphold the World, as well as articles in publications including The Financial Times, The Ecologist, and Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Environmental Law Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

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