BRUCE RICH | AUTHOR | ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER - Tags | expert on public international finance and the environment

Books

Anthologies

Anthologies

This section has material on four chapters I authored in four different books, plus a preface and essay I authored for a book on Ashoka published in Bengali in Bangladesh in 2016.
Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

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

Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the P...

A Case Study in India Highlights Conservation and Human Needs

A Case Study in India Highlights Conservation and Human Needs

On a crowded planet, environmental protection and social equity are inextricably interrelated. Attempting to achieve either alone will ultimately fail without simultaneously pursui...
Georgia, Wine, and Biodiversity

Georgia, Wine, and Biodiversity

The land of present-day Georgia and adjacent areas is the center of origin of the cultivation of numerous fruits, vegetables, and grains,...The links between Georgia’s cultural his...
Pilgrims to Where Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

Pilgrims to Where Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

The Huichol peope of central Mexico still go on long distance pilgrimages to natural sites where for them the sun and world were born. These 'ambulatory weavings of ritual texts'...

Pilgrims to Where the Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

Pilgrims to Where the Sun Was Born: Culture, Species, and Sustainability

December 20, 2019. Earlier this year I visited two of the old silver mining cities of Mexico, Zacatecas and Guanajuato. This area is also the homeland of the Huichol people, one of...