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Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon

292 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

292 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

292 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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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... Read more

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