Poverty and the environment understanding linkages at the household level.

Corporate Author: World Bank.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : The World Bank, c2008.
Series:Environment and development
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10212643
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-74) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Households  |x Economic aspects  |z Developing countries. 
650 0 |a Infrastructure (Economics)  |z Developing countries. 
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