TY  - GEN
AU  - Sinha, Anushree & Others Eds.
TI  - Environments of the poor in South Asia : simultaneously reducing poverty, protecting the environment, and adapting to climate change
SN  - 9780199453634
U1  - 362.5 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  -  
N1  - Contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes  ix
Foreword by Jairam Ramesh  xv
Acknowledgements   xxiii
Section I: The Environments of the Poor-Using a Spatial Approach
1. Reducing Poverty by Protecting the Environment and Adapting to Climate Change  3
Anushree Sinha and Armin Bauer
2. Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to Climate Change by 
Mainstreaming Their Adaptations to It   13
C.R. Ranganathan, K. Palanisami, K.R. Kakumanu, and B. Agastin
Section II: Dryland Poverty
3. Dryland Poverty and Climate Change in South Asia    31
Amita Shah
4. Promoting Livelihood Security for the Poor in the Fragile Drylands of Rural Rajasthan   52
Sunil Ray
Section III: Coastal Poverty
5. Poverty in Coastal Bangladesh    73
Mohammad Yunus and Binayak Sen
6. Climate Change and Coastal Poverty in Bangladesh   95
Mohd. Shahadt Hossain Mahmud
7. Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Areas of Sri Lanka   111
Shanila Athulathmudali, Amila Balasuriya, and Karin Fernando
Section IV: Floodland Poverty
8. Coping with Natural Disaster in the Sunderban Delta of India   133
Santadas Ghosh
9. Watershed Development as a Way of Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural India   152
Rajesh Jaiswal
10. Poverty and Pakistan's 2010 Flood   169
G.M. Arif, N. Iqbal, and S. Farooq
11. Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Odisha Rural Livelihoods Project   191
G. Bhaskar Reddy
Section V: Upland Poverty
12. The Role of the Environment in Upland Poverty in Nepal   211
Shyam Upadhyaya
13. Modernizing the Cooking Fuel of the Poor in Upland Nepal   233
Min Bikram Malla Thakuri
Section VI: Slumland Poverty
14. Slum Poverty in Asia: Characteristics, Policy Responses, New Challenges, and Opportunities  257
Banashree Banerjee
15. Slum Poverty in Bangladesh: Environment and Climate Change as Factors   176
Dilruba Banu
16. The Influence of the Environment on Poor and Migrant Women in India's Slums   289
Anushree Sinha
17. The Green and Pro-poor Role of Informal Public Transportation in India   306
Anvita Arora, Mats Jarnhammar, and Faizan Jawed Siddiqi
Index   321
About the Editors and Contributors   334

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