Poverty, health, and ecosystems : experience from Asia

摘要: It is today widely acknowledged both by the development and conservation communities that a vital relationship exists between sound management of ecosystems, determinants poverty effectiveness alleviation efforts. Although levels vulnerability remain high in urban areas, closer still rural settings where majority poor largely dependent upon productivity sustainability natural ecosystems. This publication result any analysis undertaken under aegis Asian Development Bank’s Poverty Environment Programme which aims to accelerate learning about poverty–environment relationships gathering new knowledge on effective approaches environmental reduction. Using sixteen Asian-based case studies document poverty, health resources management, it seeks analyse lessons can be drawn used achieve improved