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The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation (Hardcover, New)
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The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation (Hardcover, New)
Series: People and the Environment
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The new millennium raised hopes for a better future for humanity
through a new spirit of international cooperation. Participants at
the United Nations Millennium Summit agreed on an ambitious agenda
for international cooperation that singled out, among other issues,
environmental protection and development as key objectives. The
increasing degradation of our planet continues to emphasize the
need to conserve and preserve natural resources. Yet with more than
half of the global population still living on $2 dollars a day or
less, there is also a glaring need for development initiatives to
combat poverty. This book draws on contributions to the People and
the Environment lecture series at Fordham University, organized in
partnership with the United Nations Development Program Equator
Initiative and The Nature Conservancy. The essays offer a wealth of
fresh perspectives and strategies to promote both environmental
conservation and poverty eradication. Reflecting a range of
disciplines, issues, and settings, they cover four interrelated
topics: the link between poverty reduction and the environment and
encouraging integration of environmental management and
development; environmental disasters, their impact on poor people
and ways to prevent and mitigate their consequences; conservation
knowledge and the role of information and education in sustainable
development; and legal empowerment of the poor. Each part offers an
overview of the theme and introduces the perspectives of leading
experts and scholars-from the lessons of Katrina and the Tsunami to
model agricultural policies for sustaining the environment while
strengthening local economies. Demonstrating the roles the
environment can and should play in poverty alleviation, the essays
deepen our understanding of the some of the world's most difficult
challenges-and provide a toolkit of ideas and techniques for
addressing them.
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