Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment: The Politics of Local Engagement

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Earthscan, 2013 - 342 pages
'A valuable contribution to our collective knowledge about governance poverty and the environment' Frances Seymour World Resources Institute 'Detailed and realistic documentation of contemporary development and governance relationships and trends' Melissa Leach Institute of Development Studies There are growing signs that development work by governments aid agencies and non-government organisations ignores the fact that environmental quality matters to the poor. There are also indications that some environmental work is pushing 'people-out' protection methodologies. Yet recently an extensive r.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Creating Space for Civil Society in an Impoverished Environment in Pakistan
20
Chapter 3 The Bioplan
44
Chapter 4 EnvironmentPoverty Linkages
73
Chapter 5 The Evolving Roles of Environmental Management Institutions in East Africa
100
Chapter 6 Stories on the Environment and the Conflict from Northern Nigeria
131
Chapter 7 The Sea is Our Garden
152
Chapter 8 Working for Water in a Democratic South Africa
180
Chapter 9 People Perspectives and Reality
197
Chapter 10 Communitydesigned built and managed Toilet Blocks in Indian Cities
223
Chapter 11 Concertación Reaching Agreement and Planning for Sustainable Development in Ilo Peru
255
Chapter 12 Conclusions
280
Index
311
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