Poverty and the environment understanding linkages at the household level.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
The World Bank,
c2008.
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| Series: | Environment and development (Washington, D.C.)
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.