The Regimes of Risk: The World Bank and the Transformation of Mining in Asia

By Pascale Hatcher

With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes tailored for resource-rich country clients. It details a particular politics of mining in the Global South characterised by the transplanting, hijacking and contesting of the WBG's mining agenda.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113703131X
• ISBN13: 9781137031310
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"