Poverty and the environment [[electronic resource] ] : understanding linkages at the household level

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451563303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : The World Bank, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-19129-9; 9786611191290; 0-8213-7224-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (92 p.)
• Collana: Environment and development
• Disciplina: 339.4/9091724
• Soggetti: Poverty - Environmental aspects - Developing countries; Households - Economic aspects - Developing countries; Infrastructure (Economics) - Developing countries; Natural resources - Developing countries; Environmental health - Developing countries; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-74) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing upon recent analytical work prepared inside and outside the World Bank, this report 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 an impact on the health and livelihoods of poor people. ""Scholars and development practitioners increasingly recognize that in low-income countries there are inextricable links between poverty reduction and natural resources management. Demand has g