Regimes of Risk

The World Bank and the Transformation of Mining in Asia

Pascale Hatcher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

193 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-44081-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Pascale Hatcher is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations of Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and an Associate Research Fellow of the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA) at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Introduction 1. Into the Deep: The World Bank Group, Mining Regimes and Theoretical Insights 2. The Open Pit: Socio-Environmental Safeguards, Multilateral Meddling and Mining Regimes in the Philippines 3. Mining, Multilateral Safeguards and The Remodelling of Political Representation in Laos 4. Green Mining in the Gobi? Multilateral Norms and the Making of Mongolia's Mining Regime 5. Fighting Back: Resource Nationalism and the Reclaiming of Political Space

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 193 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Asia • Bank • Environment • Modeling • science and technology • Transformation
ISBN-10	1-349-44081-7 / 1349440817
ISBN-13	978-1-349-44081-8 / 9781349440818
Zustand	Neuware