Boulevard to broken dreams, Part 1
The Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's environmental and indigenous peoples' norms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4760904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Hunter Wade (0009-0005-8584-8258, United States Congress, corresponding author), Robert Wade (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 214-230 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0101-3157 • E-ISSN: 1809-4538 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/0101-31572016v36n01a12 |
| OpenAlex | W2337365850 |
| SciELO | S0101-31572016000100214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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
Amazon rainforest · Archaeology · Boulevard · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Geography · Government (linguistics · Indigenous · Mandate · Political science · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Ecology · International Development and Aid · Law
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |