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Abstract
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a publicly funded, multi-billion dollar experiment in global resource management. It was set up in 1991 by the World Bank to fund international conventions on climate change and biodiversity.
Investigating the workings of this little known aid fund, Zoe Young takes a critical look at the conflicts involved, focusing on how the GEF's agenda relates to questions of globalisation, knowledge and accountability in the United States and the World Bank.
As our landscapes, fertility, cultures and ecosystems are being destroyed every day, Zoe Young gives a disturbing account of the complex issues that must be addressed before the world's environment can be managed more democratically - and effectively.
'By weaving first hand encounters, science and their differing culture perspectives the authors have created an illuminating, heartfelt and highly profound book'
The Ecologist.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | x | ||
| List of Abbreviations and Acronyms | xi | ||
| 1. Greening the New World Order? | 1 | ||
| 'The Future of the Earth' ... In Our Hands | 1 | ||
| The GEF in Context | 3 | ||
| Establishing the GEF | 5 | ||
| The GEF in Practice | 8 | ||
| Understanding the GEF | 13 | ||
| Outline of the Book | 16 | ||
| Conclusions | 17 | ||
| 2. Global Enclosures and their Discontents | 18 | ||
| Globalisation and its Institutions | 19 | ||
| Shaping Development from Above | 26 | ||
| Integrating Environment and Development | 34 | ||
| Multilateral Environment Agreements | 40 | ||
| Conclusions | 47 | ||
| 3. Creation of a Global Green Fund | 48 | ||
| The GEF's Initiation | 49 | ||
| The Institutional Arrangement Created | 57 | ||
| UNCED and After | 64 | ||
| Conclusions | 78 | ||
| 4. Getting the New Facility in Order | 80 | ||
| Review and Restructuring | 82 | ||
| The New Governance Structure | 91 | ||
| The New Operational Structure | 104 | ||
| The New Issues Emerging | 116 | ||
| Conclusions | 127 | ||
| 5. Putting Plans into Practice | 128 | ||
| Summary of GEF Project Work | 129 | ||
| Raising the Money | 131 | ||
| Sources of GEFable Projects | 139 | ||
| Allocating the Money | 148 | ||
| Distributing the Money | 157 | ||
| Devolving Finance | 165 | ||
| Risks in the GEF Portfolio | 171 | ||
| Conclusions | 173 | ||
| 6. Competition, Cooperation and Distorted Feedback | 174 | ||
| Inside GEF | 175 | ||
| Relations in the GEF Family | 185 | ||
| Participation and Feedback | 192 | ||
| Democracy, Science and Knowledge | 200 | ||
| Conclusions | 208 | ||
| 7. Can Anyone Save the World? | 209 | ||
| Revisiting Assessments | 210 | ||
| Sustaining Systems | 217 | ||
| Possible Alternatives to Spending on a GEF | 225 | ||
| Final Thoughts | 229 | ||
| Appendix I - Biographies of GEF Chairman/CEO and his Senior Advisory Panel of 1997 | 232 | ||
| Appendix II - GEFOP Criteria | 240 | ||
| References | 262 | ||
| Index | 278 | ||
| Abidjan 86 | 86 | ||
| Acselrad, H. | 29 | ||
| Acselrad, H 29 | 29 | ||
| Acselrad, H 218 | 218 | ||
| additionality | 55 |