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The agendas of those trying to reduce poverty and those trying to protect the environment have been at odds in the past. But they are coming together now due to a recognition of the increasing role of the environment in the lives of the poor in developing countries, especially with the changes to the environment being caused by global warming.
This book contains a multitude of studies of the environment-poverty relationship, such as those in the drylands of Rajasthan and Odisha, the Sunderban Delta, the Nepalese uplands, the Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi coastlands and the urban slums of India and Bangladesh. Floods, landslides, droughts, degradation of natural resources and urban pollution exert a greater influence on the people in these areas than on those living in other geographical regions of South Asia.
Table of Contents:
List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
Foreword by Jairam Ramesh
Acknowledgements
Section I: The Environments of the Poor - Using a Spatial Approach
Reducing Poverty by Protecting the Environment and Adapting to Climate Change
Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to Climate Change by Mainstreaming Their Adaptations to It
Section II: Dryland Poverty
Dryland Poverty and Climate Change in South Asia
Promoting Livelihood Security for the Poor in the Fragile Drylands of Rural Rajasthan
Section III: Coastal Poverty
Poverty in Coastal Bangladesh
Climate Change and Coastal Poverty in Bangladesh
Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Areas of Sri Lanka
Shanila Athulathmudali, Amila Balasuriya and Karin Fernando
Section IV: Floodland Poverty
Coping with Natural Disaster in the Sunderban Delta of India
Watershed Development as a Way of Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural India
Poverty and Pakistan’s 2010 Flood
Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Odisha Rural Livelihoods Project
Section V: Upland Poverty
The Role of the Environment in Upland Poverty in Nepal
Modernizing the Cooking Fuel of the Poor in Upland Nepal
Section VI: Slumland Poverty
Slum Poverty in Asia: Characteristics, Policy Responses, New Challenges and Opportunities
Slum Poverty in Bangladesh: Environment and Climate Change as Factors
The Influence of the Environment on Poor and Migrant Women in India’s Slums
The Green and Pro-poor Role of Informal Public Transportation in India
Index
About the Editors and ContributorsISBN - 9780199453634
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Pages : 360
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