1st Edition
The Earth Brokers Power, Politics and World Development
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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After decades of failed development plans for the South and the mounting pressure of the environmental crisis all over the planet, the Earth Summit was billed as a dramatic new approach to solving the planet's problems. Recognizing that environment and development are inseparable was a fundamental step forward, but development quickly became much more important than environment.... Read more
Introduction
Part 1: The Documents
1. Whose COmmon Future?
2. Southern Elites
3. Rio and Bust
Part 2: Non-Governmental Organizations
4. Telling 'Greens' Apart
5. Feeding the Peoples Into the Green Machine
6. What Did Environmental NGOs Achieve?
Part 3: Business and Industry
7. Promoting Big Business at Rio
8. Changing What?
Part 4: Finance and Institutions
9. Can Money Save the World?
10. Institutional Outcomes
Part 5: Conclusions
11. What Now?
Biography
Pratap Chatterjee is Global Environmental Editor of the Inter Press Service, Washington, DC.,
Matthias Finger is Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
