World in Transition 4: Fighting Poverty Through Environmental Policy

ISBN-13: 9781853838835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 314 str.

German Advisory Council on Global Change

Opis

At the start of the 21st century, fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community. In this report, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) argues that successful environmental protection is a prerequisite for effective poverty eradication. The report investigates the link between the causes and manifestations of poverty and environmental problems, asking key questions such as: which institutional arrangements offer ways of coping with these problems, and where must gaps be closed? To this end, WBGU has evaluated major international political processes and developed recommendations on policy coherence. It also presents various recommendations on further research to identify the strategic gaps in theoretical and practical knowledge.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction * Part II: Integrative environment and development policy � The Rio vision * The Rio process * Concerted environment and development policy at a global scale * Principles of sustainable development in international law and ways to render them operable * Part III: Poverty, vulnerability and environmental change � The settings and trends * Conceptual fundamentals * Dimensions of poverty * Environmental change and poverty * The global setting: Key factors * New approaches towards an integrated analysis of regional vulnerability: Case studies on Burkina Faso and northeast Brazil * Implementing, financing and advancing international goals * Part IV: Linkages among international environment and development policy spheres * The new setting of global politics * Assessment of key policy processes and institutions * Socio-political obstacles to sustainable policies and the role of interest groups * R�sum�: Challenges in shaping the institutional framework * Part V: Reducing poverty and protecting the environment: Recommendations for integrated policies * Linking environment and development policy * Rio strategies: Examples of self-reinforcing dynamics * Global governance: Reforming the multilateral institutional architecture * Implementing international agreements * Fostering good governance in developing countries * Financing * Part VI: Reducing poverty and protecting the environment: Research recommendations * Knowledge for orientation * Knowledge for action * Part VII: Core messages *

O autorze

The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) comprises 12 leading experts working on issues of global environmental change.