Climate change and poverty in Africa

KR Hope Sr - International Journal of Sustainable Development & …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Africa is most vulnerable to climate change, although it makes the least contribution to
factors that result in global and regional climatic changes. High levels of vulnerability and …

Does China's poverty alleviation policy improve the quality of the ecological environment in poverty-stricken areas?

R Ran, Z Ni, L Hua, T Li - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Poverty eradication and environmental protection as the two global goals of sustainable
development. China's poverty alleviation policy attempts to achieve green development in …

Can poverty alleviation policy enhance ecosystem service value? Evidence from poverty-stricken regions in China

R Ran, L Hua, J **ao, L Ma, M Pang, Z Ni - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Existing literature indicates that poverty-stricken regions often exhibit characteristics such as
poor resource endowment and weak environmental carrying capacity, which can lead to …

A win-win strategy for ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation in Southern China

S Cao, D Shang, H Yue, H Ma - Environmental Research Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Environmental degradation and poverty are linked, and must be tackled together. Doing so
requires a win-win strategy that both restores the environment and ensures a sustainable …

[PDF][PDF] The marginal poor and their dependence on ecosystem services: evidence from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

P Kumar, M Yashiro - Marginality: Addressing the nexus of poverty …, 2014 - library.oapen.org
In this chapter the authors employ a meta-study to explore why it is critical to address the
degradation of ecosystems for poverty alleviation, especially in South Asia and Sub …

The participatory design of a performance oriented monitoring and evaluation system in an international development environment

I Guerra-López, K Hicks - Evaluation and program planning, 2015 - Elsevier
This article illustrates the application of the impact monitoring and evaluation process for the
design and development of a performance monitoring and evaluation framework in the …

[PDF][PDF] Beyond the HDI? Assessing alternative measures of human development from a capability perspective

F Comim - Background paper of the Human Development Report …, 2016 - hdr.undp.org
This paper explores how the human development perspective can be enlarged by further
using the capability approaches of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. It delves into the …

[PDF][PDF] Livelihood impacts of environmental conservation programmes in the Amhara region of Ethiopia

JK Assan, FR Beyene - Journal of sustainable development, 2013 - academia.edu
In an era where climate change and environmental variability is having an overwhelming
impact on the livelihoods and well-being of poor rural households, ecological conservation …

Introduction: Livelihood options for the poor in the changing environment

JK Assan, P Kumar - … : The Journal of the Development Studies …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental variability and climate change has become an enormous challenge of our
time. Policy approaches to find sustainable strategies and interventions have become more …

Using the green purchase method to help farmers escape the poverty trap in semiarid China

S Cao, X Zheng, L Chen, H Ma, J **a - Agronomy for Sustainable …, 2017 - Springer
People who live in ecologically fragile environments face both poverty and environmental
degradation, which reinforce each other and create a “poverty trap.” Traditional ecological …