Essays in this publication offer perspectives and strategies to promote both environmental conservation and poverty eradication. Reflecting a range of disciplines, issues, and settings, they cover four interrelated topics: the link between poverty reduction and the environment by encouraging integration of environmental management and development; environmental disasters, their impact on poor people, and the ways to prevent or mitigate their consequences; conservation knowledge and the role of information and education in sustainable development; and legal empowerment of the poor.
Includes bibliographic references and index. This publication draws on contributions to the "People and the Environment Lecture Series" at Fordham University, organized in partnership with the UNDP Equator Initiative and The Nature Conservancy.
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