Poverty and the Environment: Understanding Linkages at the Household Level (Environment & Development) - Softcover

World Bank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821372238 ISBN 13: 9780821372234

Verlag: World Bank Publications, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Reseña del editor

This report seeks to present micro evidence on how environmental changes affect poor households. It focuses primarily on environmental resources that are outside the private sphere, particularly commonly held and managed resources such as forests, fisheries, and wildlife. The objectives for this volume are three-fold. It is first interested in using an empirical data-driven approach to examine the dependence of the poor on natural resources. The second objective is to examine the role of the environment in determining health outcomes. A third area of interest concerns the role of policy instruments and reforms. This report uses general economics literature as well as data collected by the World Bank and its partners to analyze poverty-environment linkages at the household level. Poverty-environment linkages are inherently dynamic and involve behavioral responses that make the identification of cause and effect difficult. Thus, questions related to these linkages are ideally answered with the use of panel datasets or with data from randomized experiments.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: World Bank Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0821372238
• ISBN 13: 9780821372234
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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