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Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 1: the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's environmental and indigenous peoples' norms.
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Brazilian Journal of Political Economy / Revista de Economia Política . jan-mar2016, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p214-230. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Before the mid 1980s the World Bank conceived "nature" as something to be "conquered" and "environment" as a source of resources for "development". By the late 1980s the Bank incorporated norms of environmental sustainability and indigenous peoples' protection into its mandate, and other development-oriented IOs followed. This two-part paper describes how a fight over the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon - inside the Bank, between the Bank and NGOs supported by the US Congress, and between the Bank and the government of Brazil -helped to generate the far-reaching change of policy norms. The first part describes how the project was designed as an innovation in sustainable development in rainforests; and how it provoked a firestorm inside the Bank as it moved towards project approval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01013157
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Brazilian Journal of Political Economy / Revista de Economia PolĂtica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114150452
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572016v36n01a12