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.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes Foreword by Jairam Ramesh Acknowledgements Section I: The Environments of the Poor—Using a Spatial Approach 1. Reducing Poverty by Protecting the Environment and Adapting to Climate Change Anushree Sinha and Armin Bauer 2. Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to Climate Change by Mainstreaming Their Adaptations to It C.R. Ranganathan, K. Palanisami, K.R. Kakumanu, and B. Agastin Section II: Dryland Poverty 3. Dryland Poverty and Climate Change in South Asia Amita Shah 4. Promoting Livelihood Security for the Poor in the Fragile Drylands of Rural Rajasthan Sunil Ray Section III: Coastal Poverty 5. Poverty in Coastal Bangladesh Mohammad Yunus and Binayak Sen 6. Climate Change and Coastal Poverty in Bangladesh Mohd. Shahadt Hossain Mahmud 7. Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Areas of Sri Lanka Shanila Athulathmudali, Amila Balasuriya, and Karin Fernando Section IV: Floodland Poverty 8. Coping with Natural Disaster in the Sunderban Delta of India Santadas Ghosh 9. Watershed Development as a Way of Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural India Rajesh Jaiswal 10. Poverty and Pakistan’s 2010 Flood G.M. Arif, N. Iqbal, and S. Farooq 11. Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Odisha Rural Livelihoods Project G. Bhaskar Reddy Section V: Upland Poverty 12. The Role of the Environment in Upland Poverty in Nepal Shyam Upadhyaya 13. Modernizing the Cooking Fuel of the Poor in Upland Nepal Min Bikram Malla Thakuri Section VI: Slumland Poverty 14. Slum Poverty in Asia: Characteristics, Policy Responses, New Challenges, and Opportunities Banashree Banerjee 15. Slum Poverty in Bangladesh: Environment and Climate Change as Factors Dilruba Banu 16. The Influence of the Environment on Poor and Migrant Women in India’s Slums Anushree Sinha 17. The Green and Pro-poor Role of Informal Public Transportation in India Anvita Arora, Mats Jarnhammar, and Faizan Jawed Siddiqi Index About the Editors and Contributors