Greening aid?: understanding the environmental impact of development assistance

For more than three decades, the impact of aid on the global environment has been the subject of vigorous protest and debate. With billions spent on environmental aid each year, this groundbreaking text seeks to understand why aid isgiven, how effective it is, and whether aid is actually going to the places with the greatest environmental need. INDICE: 1: Introduction; 2: Contending Theories on Environmental Aid; 3: Which Donor Nations are Giving Aid to Protect the Environment and Why?; 4: Outsourcing National Interest: The Puzzle of Why Nations Delegate EnvironmentalAid to Multilateral Agencies; 5: To Areas of Need or Geopolitical Interest? How is Environmental Aid Allocated Among Recipient Countries?; 6: The Local andthe Global: Case Studies of Four Types of Environmental Aid; 7: Conclusion: Two Maps of the World; Appendix: Data Sources, Measures, Methods, and Coding

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958279-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 04/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés