Evaluating Environment in International Development

ISBN-13: 9780367557096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 326 str.

Juha I. Uitto

Opis

Reflecting recent developments in climate change research, this second edition will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment studies, development studies, international relations, sustainable development and evaluation, as well as NGOs and practitioners in international organizations and development.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction and Conceptual Background 1. Evaluating Environment in International Development 2. A Global Public Goods Perspective on Environment and Poverty 3. Evaluation at the Nexus 4. Poverty, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Part 2: Approaches and Challenges in Evaluating Environment and Sustainable Development 5. Using Big Data and Geospatial Approaches in Evaluating Environmental Interventions 6. Multiple Actors and Confounding Factors 7. Assessing Progress Towards Impact in Environmental Programmes 8. Meta-Assessment of Climate Mitigation Evaluations 9. A Programme Theory Approach to Evaluating Normative Environmental Interventions 10. From Evaluation of Joint programmes to Joint Evaluation of SDGs-ready Interventions 11. Evaluating the Poverty-Environment Nexus in Africa 12. Small Grants, Big Impacts: Aggregation Challenges 13. Green Economy Performance of Environmental Initiatives in Latin-America and the Caribbean 14. Evaluating International Support to Transboundary Aquifer Management Programmes 15. Disaster Risk Management in the SDG Era 16. The CGIAR Approach to Evaluation of Climate Change, Environment, and Natural Resources Management

O autorze

Juha I. Uitto is a leading thinker and practitioner in environmental evaluation. Since 2014, he has been director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Prior to coming to his current position, he worked for more than two decades on evaluation and research on environment and development, most recently in the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office.