Investing in Environmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction
Bibliography B1068
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| Author(s) | UNDP UNEP |
| Date | 2005 |
| Reference type | Report |
| Pages | 160 pp. |
| Publisher | UNDP, NY |
Summary
This report examines investments in and policies for improving environmental quality and natural resources management, and documents the critical role played by these investments and policies in creating opportunities for people to lift themselves out of poverty. Its intended audience is decision-makers who require hard economic evidence to evaluate the proposition that investment in sound, equitable environmental management is an effective—indeed, an essential—strategy for reducing poverty. The economic case for investing in the environment to reduce poverty is grounded in analysis of what has come to be known as the poverty-environment nexus. Such analyses can be, and are, made without reference to economics; however, the rapid expansion of the subject of environmental economics in recent years provides an opportunity to examine poverty-environment issues in a context that is likely to yield the kind of insights and arguments that many consider to be particularly persuasive.
Themes
Poverty-Environment Linkages
Government Policy
Available from
http://www.iucn.org/themes/economics/Files/Economics%20Paper-Final.pdf
Related records above this one:
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (Organisation O0146)
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Organisation O0040)
- World Resources Institute (WRI) (Organisation O0107)
- IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) (Organisation O0046)