Poverty and the environment [electronic resource] : understanding linkages at the household level.
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BookSeries: Environment and development (Washington, D.C.): Publisher: Washington, DC : The World Bank, c2008Description: vii, 78 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Poverty -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries | Households -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries | Infrastructure (Economics) -- Developing countries | Natural resources -- Developing countries | Environmental health -- Developing countriesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 339.4/9091724 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-74) and index.
Understanding poverty-environment linkages at the household level -- Poverty and environmental change at the macro scale -- Environmental management and pathways to household welfare -- Scope of the report -- Some key conclusions -- Local natural resources, poverty, and degradation: examining empirical regularities -- The importance of environmental income to the poor -- Commons as a source of insurance -- The effect of growth on local resource use -- Welfare impacts of degradation -- The role of poverty in environmental change -- Conclusions -- Health outcomes and environmental pathogens -- Theoretical linkages between health outcomes and environmental conditions -- Empirical evidence of linkages between health outcomes and environmental conditions -- How robust are the empirical findings? -- Conclusions and tentative policy implications -- Household welfare and policy reforms -- Selected policy reforms: evidence from case studies -- Challenges and data limitations -- Conclusions -- Directions for change -- Use of local natural resources -- Design principles for improving environmental health -- Better data for monitoring change -- Policy reforms for managing the environment and reducing poverty -- Moving forward.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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