The Greening of Aid: Sustainable livelihoods in practice

by Miles Litvinoff and Czech Conroy

The development of poor countries has so often meant the export of Northern technology for ambitious schemes designed to make money � the latest giant dam, oil refinery, logging process or pesticide factory. But such 'aid' has frequently been ecologically destructive and its crippling cost has ended up making life immeasurably worse for those it was supposed to help. Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415851203
• ISBN13: 9780415851206
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"