Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Standardizing sustainable development?: Development banks in the Andean Amazon -- Introduction -- Environmental and social risk management in international development finance institutions and Andean governments -- Governance tensions between DFIs and national governments -- ESRM: Amazon-basin governments -- Historical context: Buen Vivir and ESRM policies in Amazon-basin countries -- ESRM: international DFIs -- An infrastructure surge in sensitive territory: triggering social conflict, accentuating environmental degradation, and jeopardizing economic goals -- Limitations of ESRM frameworks in Andean Amazon infrastructure projects -- Stakeholder engagement -- Comprehensive EIAs -- Transparency and accountability -- Discussion and recommendations: the importance of mutually reinforcing networks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Standardizing sustainable development: A comparison of development banks in the Americas -- Introduction -- Literature review: the evolution of development banks' environmental and social safeguards -- History and politics -- Economics and effectiveness -- Methodology -- Development banks in LAC 2003-2015 -- Comparative analysis of environmental and social safeguards (ESS) in Latin America -- Toward a framework for safeguarding sustainability -- References -- Chapter 3: Greening development lending in the Americas: Trends and determinants -- Introduction -- Methods -- Analytical scope -- Data collection -- Green finance criteria -- Statistical analyses of determinants of green development finance -- Data -- Development banks and green finance, LAC 2003-2016 -- Estimating green finance in LAC: 2007-2016 -- Climate mitigation.

Green hydro projects -- Renewable energy -- Climate adaptation -- Water and sanitation -- Econometric analysis: what determines green financial flows in LAC? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Sustainable development for people or with people? Safeguards and infrastructure-related deforestation in the Andean Amazon, 2000-2015 -- Introduction -- Background -- Infrastructure and deforestation -- A brief history of international DFIs' and countries' environmental and social safeguards -- Approach of the present analysis -- Choice of impact studied: deforestation -- Choice of method: satellite imagery -- Data description -- Tree cover change near international DFI-financed infrastructure projects -- Safeguards -- Variations among countries -- Variations among DFIs -- Possible mechanisms -- Discussion and recommendations -- Areas for future research -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Environmental and social safeguards for infrastructure projects in the southern Peruvian Amazon -- Introduction -- The Inter-Ocean Road Corridor (CVIS) in the Peruvian Amazon -- The territorial vision of the IIRSA initiative -- The construction of CVIS in Peru -- Environmental and social safeguards on the CVIS -- The challenge of socio-environmental institutionalization -- Programs to mitigate indirect impacts -- Visible impacts on the landscape -- Analysis of the effectiveness of safeguards -- The case of the Inambari Hydroelectric Dam -- The Inambari project in the framework of the Peru-Brazil Energy Agreement -- Process to conduct studies and project cancellation -- Conclusions -- Lessons learned -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Evading sustainable development standards: Case studies on hydroelectric projects in Ecuador -- Introduction -- Method and sources of information -- Project description.

Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project (PHCCS) -- Baba Multi-Purpose Project -- Description and analysis of safeguards -- Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project -- 3.2 Baba Multi-Purpose Project -- Discussion -- Conclusions and lessons learned -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: The effectiveness of the safeguards in place for three highway projects in Bolivia -- Introduction -- Methodology -- La Paz-Oruro divided highway -- Project characteristics -- Review of processes that are relevant to ensuring the effective application of safeguards -- Main problems with effective implementation of safeguards -- San Buenaventura-Ixiamas highway -- Project profile -- The World Bank's current safeguards and their application to the project -- Construction company abandons the project: main adverse impact -- The World Bank's new social and environmental framework -- Montero-Yapacaní divided highway -- Project profile -- IDB safeguards -- Limitations of IDB's environmental policy -- Analysis of the effectiveness of safeguards -- Effectiveness of CAF safeguards -- Effectiveness of the World Bank safeguards -- Effectiveness of IDB safeguards -- Comparison of the effectiveness of the safeguards of CAF, the World Bank, and IDB -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: In their own time, on their own terms: Improving development bank project outcomes through community-centered sustainable development partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon -- Overview -- Context -- Policies and institutions -- Amazon Fund -- Preliminary outcomes -- Policy lessons and implications -- Reference -- Further reading -- Index.

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.

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