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How does the environment affect the poor?

How does the environment affect the poor?. Lauren Franck SIO 209: Poverty & the Environment March 30, 2010. Halving poverty?. The key Millennium Goal of halving poverty in a decade [by 2015] cannot be met without better environmental protection, according to a new report.

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How does the environment affect the poor?

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  1. How does the environment affect the poor? Lauren Franck SIO 209: Poverty & the Environment March 30, 2010

  2. Halving poverty? The key Millennium Goal of halving poverty in adecade [by 2015] cannot be met without better environmental protection, according to a new report. “But unless the importance of the environment is grasped and acted upon, the report concludes that the key Millennium Goal on poverty will not be met.” -BBC News

  3. World Resources 2005

  4. Key Points • Economic growth (that aids the poor) begins with natural resources • Most of the world’s impoverished societies are rural and their livelihoods are directly tied to water, forests, and fields • Nations can take a bottom-up approach to growth that begins with those natural resources that the poor already use/interact with

  5. Namibia • Community-based Natural Resource Management • Conservancies run by elected locals, who are given user rights over wildlife by the government • User rights held by committees, not directly by households • Zebra, oryx, kudu, and springbok populations are rebounding • Rural/poor communities gaining cash, jobs, and game meat • Women’s livelihoods and status have improved

  6. India • Maharashta state- suffers from droughts • Village-based water management results in more independent communities • Increased wells and subsistence crops have reduced women’s household labor

  7. Tanzania • UN initiated, Tanzanian government led HASHI program • Restores native vegetation (trees) in enclosures, reverting to traditional land management Ngitili(from agriculture) • Improved local diets, raised incomes, brought back local wildlife and increased biodiversity

  8. Indonesia • Local people trained to document and report illegal logging in 15 regions with videocameras • Program sponsored by 2 US/UK NGOs • Without logging, traditional livelihoods become possible again- river fishing, mixed crop farming, cultivation of honey, bamboo, and herbs for medicines

  9. Fiji • Locally managed marine areas- villages choose to put quotas on shellfish and other marine resources (similar to traditional management practices)

  10. Discussion Questions • What international policies make the biggest difference for environmental stability and poverty? • What are other examples of a clear relationship between poverty and the environment? • How is responsibility for aid and assistance established for natural vs anthropogenic environmental problems (Tsunami vs Oil Spill)? • How do you maintain community-run environmental strategies (against outside influence)?

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