Title
Globalized poverty and environment [electronic resource] : 21st century challenges and innovative solutions / Nathaniel O. Agola, Joseph L. Awange.
ISBN
9783642397332 electronic book
3642397336 electronic book
9783642397325
Published
Heidelberg : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 374 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-642-39733-2 doi
Call Number
HC79.P6
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.7
Summary
This book reviews the key conceptions and economic theories of poverty, explains poverty-environment nexus, and finally offers innovative socio-economic and scientific geospatial solutions for the 21st Century. The book makes it possible for our readers to understand poverty thorough a concise review of the major theoretical economic frameworks, measures of poverty, and points out the need to understand rural-urban dichotomy of poverty. We find the theories and measures to be less-than perfect and therefore point out the need to treat these measures and theories as convenient tools lacking perfect accuracy and utmost scientific reliability. It follows then that the supposedly knowledgeably crafted poverty reduction and environmental preservation solutions are inherently imperfect. The economic solutions proposed in this book transcend extant humdrum macroeconomic and policy measures targeting poverty and environmental issues. We point to a new paradigm in which private sector and other stakeholders can create new and inclusive markets where value is co-created and shared. Above all, this book offers timely state-of-the-art geospatial solutions targeting the most pressing global problems of water, e.g., the use of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) missions to estimate changes in stored water in the water-poverty-environment nexus, pollution, agriculture and disaster management, where geospatial techniques are applied under strong environmental impact assessment regulatory regimes.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 28, 2013).
Poverty and Environmental Link
Theoretical Framework for analyzing Poverty
Economic Theories of Poverty and Poverty Eradication
Traditional Measures of Poverty Lines
Recent Developments
The Human Development Perspective.-Emerging Conceptual Issues and Rural Urban Dichotomy
New Conceptual Issues in the Measurement of Poverty and the Dichotomy of Urban and Rural Poverty
Poverty and Income Inequality
Global Perspective
Review of Global Poverty Eradication Solutions
Environmental Disaster-poverty Link
Degradation of Natural Resources
Water, an Environmental-Agricultural Link
Environmental Pollution in Relation to Poverty
Impact Assessments in support of Poverty Alleviation.
