The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation /

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

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 deve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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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

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