The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation / / ed. by Paolo Galizzi, Alena Herklotz.

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• MitwirkendeR: Couton, Adrien,; Crudgington, Elisabeth,; Daily, Gretchen C.,; D’Souza, Marcella,; Ecochard, Jean-Louis,; Fach, Estelle,; Fenrich, Jeanmarie,; Galizzi, Paolo,; Grant, Joy,; Halverson, Elspeth,; Herklotz, Alena,; Kareiva, Peter,; Kjørven, Olav,; Maxwell, Annie,; McCormick, Steve,; McNeely, Jeffrey A.,; McNeill, Charles I.,; McShane, Joseph M.,; Mehers, Gillian Martin,; Ng, Helen,; Pearce, David,; Ricketts, Taylor,; Scherr, Sara,; Shames, Seth,; Singh, Naresh,; Tallis, Heather,; Thompson, Sacha,; Wheeler, Keith,; Whelan, Tensie,; Zaidman, Yasmina,
• HerausgeberIn: Galizzi, Paolo,; Herklotz, Alena,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: People and the Environment
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

The new millennium raised hopes for a better future for humanity through a new spirit of international cooperation. Participants at the United Nations Millennium Summit agreed on an ambitious agenda for international cooperation that singled out, among other issues, environmental protection and development as key objectives. The increasing degradation of our planet continues to emphasize the need to conserve and preserve natural resources. Yet with more than half of the global population still living on $2 dollars a day or less, there is also a glaring need for development initiatives to combat poverty. This book draws on contributions to the People and the Environment lecture series at Fordham University, organized in partnership with the United Nations Development Program Equator Initiative and The Nature Conservancy. The essays offer a wealth of fresh perspectives and strategies to promote both environmental conservation and poverty eradication. Reflecting a range of disciplines, issues, and settings, they cover four interrelated topics: the link between poverty reduction and the environment and encouraging integration of environmental management and development; environmental disasters, their impact on poor people and ways to prevent and mitigate their consequences; conservation knowledge and the role of information and education in sustainable development; and legal empowerment of the poor. Each part offers an overview of the theme and introduces the perspectives of leading experts and scholars—from the lessons of Katrina and the Tsunami to model agricultural policies for sustaining the environment while strengthening local economies. Demonstrating the roles the environment can and should play in poverty alleviation, the essays deepen our understanding of the some of the world’s most difficult challenges—and provide a toolkit of ideas and techniques for addressing them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I POVERTY REDUCTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT ARE NOT OPPOSING GOALS -- 1 Advancing a New Paradigm: Institutional and Policy Breakthroughs Toward Poverty Reduction and Sound Environmental Management -- 2 Managing Environmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction: A Review -- 3 Ecoagriculture Agriculture, Environmental Conservation, and Poverty Reduction at a Landscape Scale -- 4 Conserving Biodiversity and Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods: Sustainable Production and Consumption in Global Supply Chains -- 5 Restoring Ecosystems and Renewing Lives: The Story of Mhaswandi, a Once-Poor Village in India -- Part II INVESTING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTECTING COMMUNITIES FROM NATURAL DISASTERS -- 6 The International Disaster Risk Reduction Regime: Escaping the Cycle of Poverty and Tragedy -- 7 Unanticipated Consequences of the Tsunami Response -- 8 Lessons from Hurricane Katrina -- PART II I KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY TO MEET POVERTY-ALLEVIATION GOALS -- 9 Knowledge Necessary to Meet Poverty-Alleviation Goals -- 10 Conservation Information -- 11 Building Enterprises to Reach Low-Income Markets -- 12 Including Natural Capital in Environmental Decision Making -- PART IV LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR -- 13 The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor -- 14 Opportunities in Environmental Stewardship: Climate Change and Legal Empowerment of the Rural Poor -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX