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

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

  A deeply researched and widely acclaimed account of the World Bank and its destructive impact on the environment and social equity, as well as a questioning of the history, underly...

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Articles

• The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  The Multilateral Develoment Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States

  This was the lead article in the "Special Issue: Environmental Law and Policy in Developing Countries" of the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School Ecology Law...

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• Climate Reparations: Money Is Not Enough; Governance Must Change

  Climate Reparations: Money Is Not Enough; Governance Must Change

  Last November the 27th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention agreed to establish a new “Loss and Damage” fund to compensate nations “particularly vulnerable” to the i...

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• Heidegger Martin
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• hydroelectric projects
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• India
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• Indus River
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• integrated pest management (IPM)
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• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
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• Inter-American Foundation IAF
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• Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests (U.S.)
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• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
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• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• IPCC
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• Irian Jaya
• Irian Jaya
• irrigation projects
• irrigation projects
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
• Jacobabad (Pakistan)
• Jacobabad (Pakistan)
• Java
• Java
• Jose Lutzenberger
• Jose Lutzenberger
• jungle colonization
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• Karokarom mountains
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• Kasten Robert
• Kasten Robert
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kedung Ombo dam
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Keynes John Maynard
• Keynes John Maynard
• large dams
• large dams
• learning by doing
• learning by doing
• lindane
• lindane
• livestock ranching
• livestock ranching
• loan approval culture
• loan approval culture
• loss and damage (climate change)
• loss and damage (climate change)
• Loss and Damage Fund
• Loss and Damage Fund
• Lutzenberger Jose
• Lutzenberger Jose
• macro-irrationality
• macro-irrationality
• Maheswar dam (India)
• Maheswar dam (India)
• malaria
• malaria
• malathion
• malathion
• Malawi
• Malawi
• Malaysia
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• micro-rationality
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• mining
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• mismanagement
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• modernity
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• monsoon rains
• monsoon rains
• Montreal Protocol
• Montreal Protocol
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Commission
• Morse Commission
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
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• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Narmada dam
• Narmada dam
• Narmada river
• Narmada river
• Narmada Sagar project
• Narmada Sagar project
• National Envivronmental Policy Act NEPA (U.S.)
• National Envivronmental Policy Act NEPA (U.S.)
• national parks
• national parks
• national TFAP plans
• national TFAP plans
• National Thermal Power Corporation India (NTPC)
• National Thermal Power Corporation India (NTPC)
• National Wildlife Federation
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• Natonal Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) India
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• Natural Resources Defense Council
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• neoclassical economic theory
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• Nepal
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• net negative transfers
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• Newton Sir Isaac
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• New York Declaration of Environmental Policies and Procedures
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• Nigeria
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• non-governmental organizations NGOs
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• non-project lending
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• Obey David
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• Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress)
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• organochlorines
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• overgrazing
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• reorganization (of World Bank)
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• reparations
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• resettlement
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• resettlement policies (World Bank)
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• resettlement programs
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• resettlement projects
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• rice crop (Pakistan)
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
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• Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
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• roadbuilding
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• Robert McNamara
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• Rostow Walt W.
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• rubber
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• Ruzizi II Regional Hydroelectric Project
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• Save the Children
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• Sector Policy Papers (World Bank)
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• self-organizing politics
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• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
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• Singrauli (India)
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• Sir Francis Bacon
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• soft loans (MDBs)
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• soil conservation
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• Stern Ernest
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• Taft Robert A.
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• Tanzania
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• technocracy
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• Thailand
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• tobacco projects
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• totally insane
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• Transparency International
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• transportation
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• Treasury Department U.S.
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• tropical deforestation
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• tropical forest biome
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• Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP)
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• tropical moist forests
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• U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development
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• Weber Max
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