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6 The International Disaster Risk Reduction Regime: Escaping the Cycle of Poverty and Tragedy

© 2022 Fordham University Press, New York, USA

© 2022 Fordham University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. CONTRIBUTORS xi
  4. FOREWORD xxiii
  5. PREFACE xxvii
  6. INTRODUCTION xxxi
  7. PART I POVERTY REDUCTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT ARE NOT OPPOSING GOALS
  8. 1 Advancing a New Paradigm: Institutional and Policy Breakthroughs Toward Poverty Reduction and Sound Environmental Management 1
  9. 2 Managing Environmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction: A Review 30
  10. 3 Ecoagriculture Agriculture, Environmental Conservation, and Poverty Reduction at a Landscape Scale 64
  11. 4 Conserving Biodiversity and Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods: Sustainable Production and Consumption in Global Supply Chains 87
  12. 5 Restoring Ecosystems and Renewing Lives: The Story of Mhaswandi, a Once-Poor Village in India 121
  13. Part II INVESTING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTECTING COMMUNITIES FROM NATURAL DISASTERS
  14. 6 The International Disaster Risk Reduction Regime: Escaping the Cycle of Poverty and Tragedy 143
  15. 7 Unanticipated Consequences of the Tsunami Response 169
  16. 8 Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 187
  17. PART II I KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY TO MEET POVERTY-ALLEVIATION GOALS
  18. 9 Knowledge Necessary to Meet Poverty-Alleviation Goals 215
  19. 10 Conservation Information 230
  20. 11 Building Enterprises to Reach Low-Income Markets 253
  21. 12 Including Natural Capital in Environmental Decision Making 272
  22. PART IV LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR
  23. 13 The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor 303
  24. 14 Opportunities in Environmental Stewardship: Climate Change and Legal Empowerment of the Rural Poor 329
  25. CONCLUSION 356
  26. INDEX 359
The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation
This chapter is in the book The Role of the Environment in Poverty Alleviation
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293186-010

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. CONTRIBUTORS xi
  4. FOREWORD xxiii
  5. PREFACE xxvii
  6. INTRODUCTION xxxi
  7. PART I POVERTY REDUCTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT ARE NOT OPPOSING GOALS
  8. 1 Advancing a New Paradigm: Institutional and Policy Breakthroughs Toward Poverty Reduction and Sound Environmental Management 1
  9. 2 Managing Environmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction: A Review 30
  10. 3 Ecoagriculture Agriculture, Environmental Conservation, and Poverty Reduction at a Landscape Scale 64
  11. 4 Conserving Biodiversity and Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods: Sustainable Production and Consumption in Global Supply Chains 87
  12. 5 Restoring Ecosystems and Renewing Lives: The Story of Mhaswandi, a Once-Poor Village in India 121
  13. Part II INVESTING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTECTING COMMUNITIES FROM NATURAL DISASTERS
  14. 6 The International Disaster Risk Reduction Regime: Escaping the Cycle of Poverty and Tragedy 143
  15. 7 Unanticipated Consequences of the Tsunami Response 169
  16. 8 Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 187
  17. PART II I KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY TO MEET POVERTY-ALLEVIATION GOALS
  18. 9 Knowledge Necessary to Meet Poverty-Alleviation Goals 215
  19. 10 Conservation Information 230
  20. 11 Building Enterprises to Reach Low-Income Markets 253
  21. 12 Including Natural Capital in Environmental Decision Making 272
  22. PART IV LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR
  23. 13 The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor 303
  24. 14 Opportunities in Environmental Stewardship: Climate Change and Legal Empowerment of the Rural Poor 329
  25. CONCLUSION 356
  26. INDEX 359
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