New Regional Development Paradigms, Volume 4: Environmental Management, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Regional Development [Contributions in Economics and Economic History No. 225]

Kumssa, Asfaw., ed.

ISBN 10: 0313317682 / ISBN 13: 9780313317682

Published by Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., in cooperation with the United Nations and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development., 2001

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8vo, hardcover. Vol. 4. No dj, green cloth. Vg+ condition. Single non-circulating ex-lib stamp & label on 2 early pgs (only markings), contents bright, crisp & clean, virtually unopened. 194 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Regional Development Paradigms, Volume 4: Environmental Management, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Regional Development [Contributions in Economics and Economic History No. 225]
• Publisher: Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., in cooperation with the United Nations and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313317682
• ISBN 13: 9780313317682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the past half century, heroic efforts have been made to extend the benefits of economic development to impoverished multitudes, but human security--a concept the UN suggested in 1994--remains elusive for too many. Like sustainable development, human security brings together issues and factors often thought to be opposites and in conflict such as development and environment, core and periphery, market and state. Thinking in terms of human security and sustainable development, this volume discards this either-or approach and delineates linkages between regional development and such human security dimensions as poverty and unemployment and access to health and education services. In particular, the volume considers the incorporation of poverty alleviation and environmental management into regional development policy.

The book provides a synthesis of the issues involved in poverty reduction, environmental management, and regional development. The volume also offers specific examples and case studies, including, for instance, contested river basins, the use of social mobilization in reducing poverty, environmental movements in India, watershed management in China, local government in Malaysia, and urban development in Kenya. Human security, the authors demonstrate, is attainable worldwide and can be achieved alongside sustainable development.

About the Author

JAMES E. NICKUM is Visiting Professor of Economics at Hosei University in Tokyo.

KENJI OYA is Chief Researcher at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan.