Poverty and the environment : understanding linkages at the household level

World Bank. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780821372234
ISBN: 9780821372241 (electronic)
ISBN: 0821372238
ISBN: 0821372246 (electronic)
Physical Description: print
vii, 78 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Washington, DC : The World Bank, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-74) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ch. 1. 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 -- Ch. 2. Local Natural Resources, Poverty, and Degradation: Examining Empirical Regularities -- The Importance of Environmental Income to the Poor -- Commons as a Source ofInsurance -- The Effect of Growth on Local Resource Use -- Welfare Impacts of Degradation -- The Role of Poverty in Environmental Change -- Ch. 3. 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 -- Ch. 4. Household Welfare and Policy Reforms -- Selected Policy Reforms: Evidence from Case Studies -- Challenges and Data Limitations -- Ch. 5. 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 -- 2.1. Poverty and the Environment in Cambodia -- 2.2. The Role of Natural Resources in Providing Insurance before and after Hurricane Mitch -- 3.1. Does Health Information Increase Households' Efforts to Purify Water? -- 3.2. Diminishing External Benefits from Community Coverage of Water and Sanitation -- 4.1. Impact Evaluation Methods -- 4.2. Who Participates in the Community Management of Environmental Resources? -- 4.3. Who Benefits Most from Community Management? -- 1.1. Rank Correlations between Poverty and Various Environmental Indicators in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam -- 1.2. Poverty-Environment Linkages at the Household Level -- 2.1. Biomass Availability in Malawi -- 2.2. Effect of Increase in Biomass Density on Welfare of Rural Poor in Malawi -- 1.1. Selected Macro Indicators Linking Poverty, Natural Resources, and Under-Five Mortality -- 1.2. Health Outcomes and Accessto Environmental Infrastructure in Selected Countries, by Wealth Quintile -- 2.1. Environmental Income as Percentage of Total Income in Resource- Poor and Resource-Rich Areas -- 3.1. Factors Affecting Child Health.