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Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems: Experience from Asia

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Contents

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Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgments [ PDF: 72kb | 15 pages ]

Chapter 1: Examining the Relationships between Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems in Rural Asia [ PDF: 102kb | 20 pages ]

1.1. Background and Rationale

1.2 Analytical Approach and Questions Posed

1.3 Case Study Selection

1.4 Reducing Poverty in Asia: Why Longer-Term Environmental Change Matters

1.5 Background to the Poverty-Environment Debate

1.6 How Institutions Link Poor People and Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework

1.7 State of Knowledge on Poverty-Environment Links

1.8 Questions Guiding the Analysis

Chapter 2: Poverty, Livelihoods, and Ecosystems [ PDF: 649b | 74 pages ]

2.1 Enhancing Sustainable Livelihoods in Puttalam Lagoon, Sri Lanka

2.2 Poverty–Environment Links in the Wetlands of Sanjiang Plain, People’s Republic of China

2.3 Poverty and Natural Resource Degradation: Irrigation Tanks in South India

2.4 Community-Based Forest Management in Nepal: Reversing Environmental Degradation and Improving Livelihoods

Chapter 3: Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems [ PDF: 281kb | 30 pages ]

3.1 SARS and Avian Influenza: Exploring the Role of Conservation and Veterinary Health in Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Asia

3.2 Deforestation and the Nipah Virus in Malaysia

3.3 Aquatic Resources, Food Security, and Nutrition in the Lao PDR: A Case Study from Attapeu Province

Chapter 4: Poverty and Biodiversity [ PDF: 1,145kb | 53 pages ]

4.1 Improving Poverty Reduction and Conservation Outcomes in the Grassland Ecosystem of Mongolia

4.2 Poverty Reduction, Forests, and Conservation in Viet Nam: Understanding the Trade-Offs

4.3 Poverty Reduction, Increased Conservation, and Environmental Protection through Participatory Breeding: A Case Study from India

4.4 From Field to Policy: Linking Livelihood, Health, and Conservation in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve, the PRC

Chapter 5: Response Strategies [ PDF: 776kb | 68 pages ]

5.1 Do Decision-Makers Hear and Respond to What the Poor Say about Poverty and the Environment? Recent Experience from Pakistan

5.2 Overcoming Gender Inequities in Access to Natural Resources in Asia

5.3 Community Mangrove Management in Pred Nai Village, Thailand

5.4 Wetland Resource Management in Bangladesh to Improve Livelihoods and Sustain Natural Resources

5.5 Institutional Reform Linking Poverty and the Environment: Experience from Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China

Chapter 6: Poverty, Heath, Governance, and Ecosystems: A Synthesis of Case Study Findings [ PDF: 104kb | 25 pages ]

6.1 Poverty, Livelihood, and Ecosystems

6.2 Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems

6.3 Poverty and Biodiversity

6.4 Response Strategies

References [ PDF: 91kb | 27 pages ]

Author Biographies [ PDF: 32kb | 8 pages ]

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