The Environments of the Poor in South Asia: Simultaneously Reducing Poverty, Protecting the Environment, and Adapting to Climate Change

The agendas of those trying to reduce poverty and those trying to protect the environment have been at odds in the past. But they are coming together now due to a recognition of the increasing role of the environment in the lives of the poor in developing countries, especially with the changes to the environment being caused by global warming.

This book contains a multitude of studies of the environmentâpoverty relationship, such as those in the drylands of Rajasthan and Odisha, the Sunderban Delta, the Nepalese uplands, the Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi coastlands, and the urban slums of India and Bangladesh. Floods, landslides, droughts, degradation of natural resources, and urban pollution exert a greater influence on the people in these areas than on those living in other geographical regions of South Asia.

Anushree Sinha is a macro and development economist currently working as Senior Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Armin Bauer is Principal Economist in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department of the Asian Development Bank, Paul Bullen is a developmental editor who has written about the history and science of global warming and has taught law, political philosophy, and critical thinking.