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Title: Poverty and the environment understanding linkages at the household level.
Environment and development
Environment and development (Washington, D.C.)
Main Entry: World Bank.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: The World Bank,
Publication Date: c2008.
Publication Place: Washington, DC :
ISBN: 9780821372234
0821372238
9780821372241 (electronic)
0821372246 (electronic)
Subject: Poverty -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries.
Households -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Developing countries.
Natural resources -- Developing countries.
Environmental health -- Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Series: Environment and development
Environment and development (Washington, D.C.)
Contents: 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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