Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation : Confronting Environmental Threats in Sindh, Pakistan

Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation : Confronting Environmental Threats in Sindh, Pakistan

The underlying goal of this book is to facilitate and stimulate sharing of information on these phenomena and to provide an interdisciplinary framework for bringing about improved environmental conditions in Sindh. The book offers methods to identify environmental and climate change priority problem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sánchez-Triana, Ernesto, Enriquez, Santiago, Larsen, Bjorn, Webster, Peter, Afzal, Javaid
Other Authors: Strukova Golub, Elena
Format: Book
Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2015
Subjects:
climate change
environmental degradation
early warning systems
environmental health
geomorphology
institutional analysis
natural disasters
natural resource management
policy analysis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22149
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Summary:The underlying goal of this book is to facilitate and stimulate sharing of information on these phenomena and to provide an interdisciplinary framework for bringing about improved environmental conditions in Sindh. The book offers methods to identify environmental and climate change priority problems; analyzes interventions to address such problems; establishes a social learning mechanism to continuously improve Sindh’s responses and build resilience to climate variability and change; and provides opportunities for stakeholders to be involved in decisively tackling climate change and deteriorating environmental conditions.

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