For more than three decades, the impact of aid on the global environment has been the subject of vigorous protest and debate. With billions spent on environmental aid each year, this groundbreaking text seeks to understand why aid is given, how effective it is, and whether aid is actually going to the places with the greatest environmental need.

1. Introduction ; 2. Contending Theories on Environmental Aid ; 3. Which Donor Nations are Giving Aid to Protect the Environment and Why? ; 4. Outsourcing National Interest: The Puzzle of Why Nations Delegate Environmental Aid to Multilateral Agencies ; 5. To Areas of Need or Geopolitical Interest? How is Environmental Aid Allocated Among Recipient Countries? ; 6. The Local and the Global: Case Studies of Four Types of Environmental Aid ; 7. Conclusion: Two Maps of the World ; Appendix: Data Sources, Measures, Methods, and Coding

Review from previous edition Greening Aid? reveals surprising patterns in how the greening of aid took place during the last two decades of the 20th century. It is a major work of scholarship, constituting an enormous step forward in our understanding of environmental aid

`Review from previous edition Greening Aid? reveals surprising patterns in how the greening of aid took place during the last two decades of the 20th century. It is a major work of scholarship, constituting an enormous step forward in our understanding of environmental aid ' Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University `Do no harm. That's the minimum we should expect of development assistance. But some aid has caused harm - to the environment if not also to development. Aid policies have changed as a result, but has the "greening" of aid been successful? The evidence previously has been anecdotal. This careful study offers the most systematic treatment of this important subject yet available - a valuable contribution to the study of aid and its environmental consequences ' Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Updated and revised preface Looks at how aid impacts the environment, what motivates donors to give aid, and evaluates its effectiveness Draws on the world's largest and most complete database of foreign aid- over 400,000 individual aid projects spanning 30 years Provides both project level data and the systematic analysis needed to inform current policy debates Adopts a multidisciplinary approach drawing on economics, political science, and sociology

Robert L. Hicks is Associate Professor of Economics at The College of William and Mary. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University (B.A., 1991) and the University of Maryland (Ph.D., 1997). His research includes econometric approaches for measuring peoples' preferences for environmental goods, environmental valuation, and the optimal management of natural resources. Bradley C. Parks is a PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Fellow at the College of William and Mary's Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations. He has written and contributed to several books and articles on global environmental politics, international political economy, and development theory and practice. He previously served as an Associate Director of Development Policy in the Department of Policy and International Relations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). He was also a founding member of MCC's Climate Change Working Group, which is responsible for more effectively integrating climate considerations into the selection, design, and implementation of U.S. foreign assistance projects. J. Timmons Roberts is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University. Professor Roberts received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1992 and has taught at Tulane University and the College of William and Mary, where he conducted this research. He is author of a number of books and articles and his research interests include Globalization, Development and Social Change, Environmental Sociology, and Climate Change Michael J. Tierney is Associate Professor of Government at The College of William and Mary. He received a B.A. from William and Mary in 1987 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 2003. His research interests include International Relations, International Organization, and Institutional Theory

Updated and revised preface Looks at how aid impacts the environment, what motivates donors to give aid, and evaluates its effectiveness Draws on the world's largest and most complete database of foreign aid- over 400,000 individual aid projects spanning 30 years Provides both project level data and the systematic analysis needed to inform current policy debates Adopts a multidisciplinary approach drawing on economics, political science, and sociology