Environmental Indicators Relevant to Poverty Reduction
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| Author(s) | Henninger, N. Hammond, A. |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Reference type | Paper |
| Source name | Environment Strategy Papers |
| Journal | No 3 |
| Pages | 32 pp. |
| Publisher | World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
Summary
This background paper focuses on natural resource indicators and a spatial analysis, that can be used to target, and monitor poverty reduction outcomes. The work draws largely on the Geographic Information System-based " potential risk indicators " developed by the World Resources Institute for major types of ecosystems worldwide - and for which reasonably good data are available (such as agro-ecosystems, forest, grasslands, and coastal systems). But the links between environmental conditions, and poverty are not well established on a micro-level, mostly because critical data are not available, and more fundamentally, because the environment is only one factor in a complex physical, biological, and socioeconomic system that surrounds poverty. However, on a larger scale, and with longer time-perspective, the relationship is much clearer: there are few, if any, instances of countries moving out of poverty without improving the net productivity of their natural resource base. In many instances, food security and livelihoods for the poor, depend largely on the ability to grow food locally, or use local natural resources - directly dependent on ecosystem goods and services. To this end, digital maps of resource distribution, and potential degradation, (as descriptors of the major factors underlying poverty), when combined with maps of poverty distribution, and population density, may prod crucial particulars for policy action.
Themes
Poverty-Environment Linkages
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