The environments of the poor in South Asia : simultaneously reducing poverty, protecting the environment, and adapting to climate change / edited by Anushree Sinha, Armin Bauer, Paul Bullen.
By: Asian Development Bank.
Contributor(s): Sinha, Anushree | Bauer, Armin | Bullen, Paul | Asian Development Bank Institute | National Council of Applied Economic Research.
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BookPublisher: Manila : Asian Development Bank (ADB) , 2015Edition: First edition.Description: xxiv, 336p. :: ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780199453634 (hardback); 0199453632 (hardback).Subject(s): Poverty -- Environmental aspects -- South Asia | Economic history | Poverty -- Environmental aspects | Social conditions | Armut | Soziale Lage | Region | South Asia -- Economic conditions | South Asia -- Social conditions | South Asia| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BIDS Library and Documentation Center | Non-fiction | XP ADB Env-7 (Browse shelf) | 2015 | C-01 | Available | 118536 |
"Co-publication of the Asian Development Bank and Oxford University Press India."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The environment of the poor : using a spatial approach -- Dryland poverty -- Coastal poverty -- Floodland poverty -- Upland poverty -- Slumland poverty.
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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