Foreword

PART I THE WEALTH OF THE POOR

Chapter 1 Nature, Power, and Poverty

• Linking Ecosystems, Governance, and Poverty
• The Persistence of Poverty
• Growth Alone Is Not Enough
• Environment Matters to the Poor
• Nature as an Economic Stepping Stone
• Better Governance Is Vital for Higher Incomes
• The Environment as a Route to Democratic Governance
• Linking Environment and Governance in the Global Poverty Fight
• From Vulnerability to Wealth

Chapter 2 Ecosystems and the Livelihoods of the Poor

• How Important is Environmental Income?
• Who Gets More Environmental Income: Rich or Poor?
• Environmental Income by Ecosystem
• The Role of Livestock
• The Social Benefits of Ecosystems
• Building on the Strength of Ecosystems

Chapter 3 The Role of Governance

• Resource Tenure and Property Rights: Access and Ownership
• Decentralization: Can It Help the Poor?
• The Rights to Information, Participation, and Justice: The Importance of a Voice

Chapter 4 Four Steps to Greater Environmental Income

• Better Management Requires an Ecosystem Approach
• Income Benefits of Better Management

2. Getting the Governance Right: Empowering the Poor to Profit from Nature

• Securing Property and Resource Rights through Tenure Reform
• Poor-Friendly Decentralization: Community-Based Natural Resource Management
• Keeping Community-Based Management Pro-Poor
• A Continuing Role for the State

• Provide Marketing Assistance
• Understand the Limitations of Transportation
• Make Credit Available
• Capture Greater Value
• Partner with the Private Sector
• Keep Sustainability in Mind

• The Challenges of Pro-Poor PES
• Beyond Environmental Income

Chapter 5 Turning Natural Assets into Wealth: Case Studies

• Nature in Local Hands: The Case for Namibia’s Conservancies
• More Water, More Wealth in Darewadi Village
• Regenerating Woodlands: Tanzania’s HASHI Project
• Bearing Witness: Empowering Indonesian Communities to Fight Illegal Logging
• Village by Village: Recovering Fiji’s Coastal Fisheries

Special Section: Global Development Policies: Making the MDGs and PRSPs Work for the Poor and the Environment

The Millennium Development Goals

• A Break from the Past
• For Environment and Governance, More of the Same
• Focused on the Wrong Nature
• Getting the Targets and Indicators Right
• Encouraging Environment and Governance as Cross-Cutting Themes

Poverty Reductions Strategies (PRSPs)

• Also in Need of an Environmental Overhaul
• "Mainstreaming" the Environment in PRSPs: The Unfulfilled Promise
• Upgrading the Treatment of Environmental Income in PRSPs
• Steps toward More Effective PRSPs

PART II DATA TABLES

• 1. Population and Education
• 2. Human Health
• 3. Gender and Development
• 4. Income and Poverty
• 5. Economics and Financial Flows
• 6. Institutions and Governance
• 7. Energy
• 8. Climate and Atmosphere
• 9. Water Resources and Fisheries
• 10. Biodiversity
• 11. Land Use and Human Settlements
• 12. Food and Agriculture

Acknowledgments

References

Index