Overview
- Explores the way in which ecological science and tools can be applied to address major development challenges associated with rural poverty.
- Details how ecological principles and practices can be integrated, conceptually and practically, into social, economic, and political norms and processes to positively influence poverty and the environment upon which humans depend.
- Illustrates how traditional paradigms and forces guiding development can be steered along more sustainable trajectories by utilizing ecological science to inform project planning, policy development, market development and decision making.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
The three editors of this volume, Jane Carter Ingram, Fabrice DeClerck, and Cristina Rumbatis del Rio, have collaborated on multiple projects addressing the role of ecology in poverty reduction and began working together at the Earth Institute of Columbia University. Their educational and professional backgrounds in ecology, geography, and sustainable development have served as the inspiration for this book and their professional pursuits. The editors hope that the issues presented and explored in this volume will serve to encourage ecological scientists and practitioners in international development fields to collaborate together to identify creative, sustainable and viable solutions to challenges preventing poverty alleviation around the world. J. Carter Ingram is the lead of the Ecosystem Services and Payments for Ecosystem Services group at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, NY. Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio is an Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, NY (USA). Fabrice DeClerck is a professor of community and landscape ecology at CATIE in Costa Rica.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction
Book Subtitle: The Application of Ecology in Development Solutions
Editors: Jane Carter Ingram, Fabrice DeClerck, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0186-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0185-8
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9590-2
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0186-5
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 328
Topics: Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Applied Ecology