The Environments of The Poor in South Asia

Simultaneously Reducing Poverty, Protecting the Environment, and Adapting to Climate Change

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9780199453634

Publication date:

09/03/2015

Hardback

360 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Price: 995.00 INR

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ISBN:

9780199453634

Publication date:

09/03/2015

Hardback

360 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Anushree Sinha, Armin Bauer & Paul Bullen

This book is a thematic collection of previously unpublished essays on the condition of poor in difficult environmental conditions and documents some empirical observations on the interrelationship between poverty and environment. 

Suitable for: Libraries as well as departments, institutions, and research centres working on environment and climate change, environmental economics 

Rights:  World Rights

Anushree Sinha, Armin Bauer & Paul Bullen

Description

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. 

Anushree Sinha, Armin Bauer & Paul Bullen

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
1. Reducing Poverty by Protecting the Environment and Adapting to Climate Change 
Anushree Sinha and Armin Bauer
2. Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to Climate Change by Mainstreaming Their Adaptations to It 
C.R. Ranganathan, K. Palanisami, K.R. Kakumanu, and B. Agastin
Section II: Dryland Poverty
3. Dryland Poverty and Climate Change in South Asia 
Amita Shah
4. Promoting Livelihood Security for the Poor in the Fragile Drylands of Rural Rajasthan 
Sunil Ray
Section III: Coastal Poverty
5. Poverty in Coastal Bangladesh 
Mohammad Yunus and Binayak Sen
6. Climate Change and Coastal Poverty in Bangladesh 
Mohd. Shahadt Hossain Mahmud
7. Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Areas of Sri Lanka 
Shanila Athulathmudali, Amila Balasuriya, and Karin Fernando
Section IV: Floodland Poverty
8. Coping with Natural Disaster in the Sunderban Delta of India 
Santadas Ghosh
9. Watershed Development as a Way of Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural India 
Rajesh Jaiswal
10. Poverty and Pakistan's 2010 Flood 
G.M. Arif, N. Iqbal, and S. Farooq
11. Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Odisha Rural Livelihoods Project 
G. Bhaskar Reddy
Section V: Upland Poverty
12. The Role of the Environment in Upland Poverty in Nepal 
Shyam Upadhyaya
13. Modernizing the Cooking Fuel of the Poor in Upland Nepal 
Min Bikram Malla Thakuri
Section VI: Slumland Poverty
14. Slum Poverty in Asia: Characteristics, Policy Responses, New Challenges, and Opportunities 
Banashree Banerjee
15. Slum Poverty in Bangladesh: Environment and Climate Change as Factors 
Dilruba Banu
16. The Influence of the Environment on Poor and Migrant Women in India's Slums 
Anushree Sinha
17. The Green and Pro-poor Role of Informal Public Transportation in India 
Anvita Arora, Mats Jarnhammar, and Faizan Jawed Siddiqi
 
Index 

About the Editors and Contributors 

Anushree Sinha, Armin Bauer & Paul Bullen

Anushree Sinha, Armin Bauer & Paul Bullen

Anushree Sinha, Armin Bauer & Paul Bullen

Description

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. 

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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
1. Reducing Poverty by Protecting the Environment and Adapting to Climate Change 
Anushree Sinha and Armin Bauer
2. Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to Climate Change by Mainstreaming Their Adaptations to It 
C.R. Ranganathan, K. Palanisami, K.R. Kakumanu, and B. Agastin
Section II: Dryland Poverty
3. Dryland Poverty and Climate Change in South Asia 
Amita Shah
4. Promoting Livelihood Security for the Poor in the Fragile Drylands of Rural Rajasthan 
Sunil Ray
Section III: Coastal Poverty
5. Poverty in Coastal Bangladesh 
Mohammad Yunus and Binayak Sen
6. Climate Change and Coastal Poverty in Bangladesh 
Mohd. Shahadt Hossain Mahmud
7. Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Areas of Sri Lanka 
Shanila Athulathmudali, Amila Balasuriya, and Karin Fernando
Section IV: Floodland Poverty
8. Coping with Natural Disaster in the Sunderban Delta of India 
Santadas Ghosh
9. Watershed Development as a Way of Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural India 
Rajesh Jaiswal
10. Poverty and Pakistan's 2010 Flood 
G.M. Arif, N. Iqbal, and S. Farooq
11. Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Odisha Rural Livelihoods Project 
G. Bhaskar Reddy
Section V: Upland Poverty
12. The Role of the Environment in Upland Poverty in Nepal 
Shyam Upadhyaya
13. Modernizing the Cooking Fuel of the Poor in Upland Nepal 
Min Bikram Malla Thakuri
Section VI: Slumland Poverty
14. Slum Poverty in Asia: Characteristics, Policy Responses, New Challenges, and Opportunities 
Banashree Banerjee
15. Slum Poverty in Bangladesh: Environment and Climate Change as Factors 
Dilruba Banu
16. The Influence of the Environment on Poor and Migrant Women in India's Slums 
Anushree Sinha
17. The Green and Pro-poor Role of Informal Public Transportation in India 
Anvita Arora, Mats Jarnhammar, and Faizan Jawed Siddiqi
 
Index 

About the Editors and Contributors 

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