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Title Reducing poverty and sustaining the environment : the politics of local engagement / edited by Stephen Bass [and others]
Published London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 318 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of Tables, Diagrams and Boxes; List of Photographs; Acknowledgements; About the Authors and Editors; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Creating Space for Civil Society in an Impoverished Environment in Pakistan; Chapter 3 The Bioplan; Chapter 4 Environment-Poverty Linkages; Chapter 5 The Evolving Roles of Environmental Management Insitutions in East Africa; Chapter 6 Stories on the Environment and Conflict from Northern Nigeria; Chapter 7 The Sea is Our Garden; Chapter 8 'Working for Water' in a Democratic South Africa
Summary '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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Poverty -- Developing countries -- Prevention -- Case studies
Environmental management -- Political aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Poverty -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Local government -- Developing countries
Environmental justice -- Developing countries -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
Ecology
Environmental justice
Environmental management -- Political aspects
Local government
Poverty -- Environmental aspects
Poverty -- Prevention
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Environmental conditions -- Case studies
Subject Developing countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Bass, Stephen, 1958-
ISBN 9781849772303
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9781423728450
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