• ISBN13: 9780199453634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: December 12, 2015
• Pages: 360
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 540 grams

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. 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 Reducing Poverty by Protecting the Environment and Adapting to Climate Change Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to Climate Change by Mainstreaming Their Adaptations to It Section II: Dryland Poverty Dryland Poverty and Climate Change in South Asia Promoting Livelihood Security for the Poor in the Fragile Drylands of Rural Rajasthan Section III: Coastal Poverty Poverty in Coastal Bangladesh Climate Change and Coastal Poverty in Bangladesh Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Areas of Sri Lanka Shanila Athulathmudali, Amila Balasuriya and Karin Fernando Section IV: Floodland Poverty Coping with Natural Disaster in the Sunderban Delta of India Watershed Development as a Way of Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural India Poverty and Pakistan’s 2010 Flood Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Odisha Rural Livelihoods Project Section V: Upland Poverty The Role of the Environment in Upland Poverty in Nepal Modernizing the Cooking Fuel of the Poor in Upland Nepal Section VI: Slumland Poverty Slum Poverty in Asia: Characteristics, Policy Responses, New Challenges and Opportunities Slum Poverty in Bangladesh: Environment and Climate Change as Factors The Influence of the Environment on Poor and Migrant Women in India’s Slums The Green and Pro-poor Role of Informal Public Transportation in India Index About the Editors and Contributors

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.