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.