1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154870603321

Autore

Telesetsky Anastasia

Titolo

Ecological restoration in international environmental law / / Anastasia Telesetsky, An Cliquet, and Afshin Akhtar-Khavari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-75760-5

1-317-63367-9

1-317-63366-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

Altri autori (Persone)

Akhtar-KhavariAfshin

CliquetAn

Disciplina

344.046

Soggetti

Restoration ecology - Law and legislation

Nature conservation - Law and legislation

Biodiversity conservation - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Setting the scene for international law and ecological restoration -- pt. II. Law of ecological restoration -- pt. III. Thematic issues on ecological restoration.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960650003321

Titolo

Moving out of poverty . Volume 2 Success from the bottom up / / Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2009

ISBN

0-8213-7216-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Narayan-ParkerDeepa

PritchettLant

KapoorSoumya

Disciplina

339.46091724

362.57

Soggetti

Poverty - Developing countries

Social mobility - Economic aspects - Developing countries

Migrant labor - Developing countries - Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Study Team and Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; 1 The Moving Out of Poverty Study: An Overview; Tables; Figures; 2 Stories of the Poor, Stories by the Poor; Boxes; 3 Poverty Is a Condition, Not a Characteristic; 4 I Believe I Can; 5 The Dream of Equal Opportunity; 6 All Politics Is Local: How Better Governance Helps the Poor; 7 The Unfulfilled Potential of Collective Action; 8 Concluding Reflections; Appendix 1 Researchers and Institutions Involved in Country Studies; Appendix 2 Technical Note on Household Regressions; Appendix 3 Data Collection Methods

Appendix 4 List of Variables for Household RegressionsAppendix 5 Weights for the PCA-Constructed Indexes, by Study Region; Appendix 6 Regression Results Tables for MOP and MPI; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall five thousand times, I will stand up some other five times."" William, a 37 years old from El Gorrion, Columbia, recounts his life story.Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up presents the perspectives of poor people who have made it out of



poverty. Based on discussions with over 60,000 people across 17 different study regions, it provides a bottom up viewpoint on the processes and local institutions that play key roles