Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom.
While mega-dams, highways, and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners, the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities, going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice, and ultimately whether they are enough to stem the risks of infrastructure mega-projects. As Chinese public banks play an increasingly important role in the region, the book also demonstrates that there is a risk of governments undercutting their own standards. By contrast, this book shows that making infrastructure work for everyone involved requires mutually reinforcing networks of support and accountability among communities, governments, and development banks.
This book, led by an expert multi-disciplinary, international team, will be of considerable interest to researchers in the fields of development and development economics, geography, anthropology, and ecology, as well as practitioners in development banks and in government regulatory and foreign aid agencies.
Rebecca Ray is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, USA.
Kevin P. Gallagher is Director of the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, USA.
Cynthia A. Sanborn is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad del Pacfico, Peru.
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Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
Edited by Rebecca Ray, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Cynthia A. Sanborn
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Contents
Rebecca Ray, Boston University Global Development Policy Center, Boston, MA.
Kevin P. Gallagher, Boston University Global Development Policy Center, Boston, MA.
Cynthia A. Sanborn, Universidad del Pacfico, Lima, Peru.
Susana Anda, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador.
Lykke E. Andersen, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo, La Paz, Bolivia.
Juan Luis Dammert, Universidad del Pacfico, Lima, Peru.
Susana del Granado, Corporacin Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura, Panama City, Panama.
Betty Espinosa, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador.
Julie Michelle Klinger, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Vctor Lpez, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador.
Agnes Medinaceli, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo, La Paz, Bolivia.
Miguel Antonio Roca, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo, La Paz, Bolivia.
Mara Cristina Vallejo, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador.
Francisco Venes, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador.
Fei Yuan, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.
Chapter 1
This work was supported financially by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In addition to this institutional and financial support we would like to thank the following individuals for their support and commentary throughout this process: Emmanuel Boulet, Janine Ferretti, Eduardo Forno, Cesar Gamboa, Paulina Garzon, Dietmar Grimm, Silvia Molina, Debra Moskovits, Sven-Uwe Mueller, John Reid, Amy Rosenthal, Sara Van Velkinburgh, and Li Zhu.
Chapter 4
The author gratefully acknowledges helpful comments by Frank Ackerman, Kevin P. Gallagher, Rachel Garret, and William W. Grimes.
Chapter 5
The author thanks Kevin Gallagher, Rosario Gomez, Julie Klinger, Rebecca Ray, Cynthia Sanborn, and Rosario Santa Gadea for their detailed comments on previous versions of this work. Rosario Santa Gadea and Rosario Gomez also provided contacts for interviews and made suggestions for data collection which were very useful for the completion of this research. Tania Galvan was in charge of developing the maps and Diego Perez took pictures during fieldwork along the highway. Ramon Rivero provided guidance for fieldwork in Madre de Dios. Leolino Rezende and Rebecca Ray contributed by developing statistical tables that support this document. Anthony Bebbington, Cesar Gamboa, and Ernesto Rez-Luna made comments on the central arguments of the study. The author thanks all of these individuals for their assistance but assumes full responsibility for any errors or omissions that this research may contain.
