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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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Author:   Anushree Sinha (, Anushree Sinha is a Senior Fellow with NCAER) ,  Armin Bauer (, Program Sponsor and Principal Economist, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, ADB) ,  Paul Bullen (, Developmental Editor for ADB)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.534kg
ISBN:  

9780199453634

ISBN 10:   0199453632
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   28 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Contributo

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Anushree Sinha is a macro and development economist currently working as Senior Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research. Armin Bauer is Principal Economist in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department of the Asian Development Bank Paul Bullen is a developmental editor who has written about the history and science of global warming and has taught law, political philosophy, and critical thinking

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