Poverty and the environment : understanding linkages at the household level.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

World Bank.

Series:

Environment and development (Washington, D.C.)

Environment and development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Environmental aspects--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Households--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Households.

Infrastructure (Economics)--Developing countries.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Environmental health.

Households--Economic aspects.

Poverty--Environmental aspects.

Developing countries.

Natural resources--Developing countries.

Natural resources.

Environmental health--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

vii, 78 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The World Bank, [2008]

Summary:

The World Bank is one of the largest international donors in the area of environmental management, providing aid to poor countries toward such efforts as stemming climate change and biodiversity degradation, improving air quality and sanitation infrastructure, and developing institutions for environmental governance. But to what extent do these environmental management activities contribute toward the Bank's primary goal of poverty reduction? Are current environmental management strategies addressing the problems of the poor? Most important, what should be the role of the poor as environmental management programs are put forth?

Drawing upon recent analytical work prepared inside and outside the World Bank, Poverty and the Environment: Understanding Linkages at the Household Level identifies key lessons concerning the linkages between poverty and the environment. With a focus on the contribution of environmental resources to household welfare, the analysis increases our understanding of how specific reforms and interventions can have a positive impact on the health and livelihoods of poor people.

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-74) and index.

ISBN:

9780821372234

0821372238

9780821372241

0821372246

OCLC:

163604514