World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience

ISBN:

978-1-56973-600-5

Downloads:

Full Report (PDF, 277 pages, 19.8 Mb)
Quick Guide (PDF, 20 pages, 3.5 Mb)

Sections

Introduction, Table of Contents & Foreword (PDF, 14 pages, 919 Kb)
Chapter 1: Scaling Up Ecosystem Enterprise (PDF, 44 pages, 5.5 Mb)
Chapter 2: Building Ownership, Capacity and Connection (PDF, 64 pages, 4.8 Mb)
Chapter 3: Roots to Resilience: Case Studies (PDF, 48 pages, 2.3 Mb)
Chapter 4: Driving the Scaling Process (PDF, 30 pages, 1.2 Mb)
Chapter 5: Recommendations: Advancing Enterprise Resilience (PDF, 13 pages, 3.1 Mb)
Data Tables (PDF, 20 pages, 1.0 Mb)
Acknowledgments, References, Credits & Index (PDF, 44 pages, 1.5 Mb)

En Español

Recursos Mundiales: Las Raíces De La Resiliencia (Amazon.com)

Contact:

Lauren Withey

World Resources Report 2008 continues the focus of the World Resources report series on poverty and the environment.

The reality of global poverty is that it is rural and it is persistent: three-quarters of the 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 per day—almost 2 billion—live in rural areas; that number is virtually unchanged in 20 years.

World Resources 2008 argues that successfully scaling up environmental income for the poor requires three elements:

Ownership–a foundation of good governance that both transfers to the poor real authority over local resources and elicits local demand for better management of these resources.
Capacity–making good on this demand requires building local capacity for development-in this case, the capacity of local communities to manage ecosystems competently, carry out ecosystem-based enterprises, and distribute the income from these enterprises fairly.
Networks–the third element is establishing adaptive networks that connect and nurture nature-based enterprises, giving them the ability to adapt, learn, connect to markets, and mature into businesses that can sustain themselves and enter the economic mainstream.

The result is communities with increased resilience: economic, social and environmental.

Such outcomes take on added import as it becomes increasingly clear that the impacts of climate change are likely to have their biggest effect on those areas where most of the world’s poor live: drylands, low-latitude geographies and high-stress watersheds.

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What an inspiring story on the greening of Niger. If it can be done here it can be done anywhere. Niger needs some good press. I love the fact that efforts to protect the environment can also lead to better food security. Thanks for the great work, and I hope your next report will feature still greater progress.

Hallo Sir/Madam
Am a Maters student in Integrated Water Resources Management and am kindly requesting for a copy of this report. i will be doing my research on impacts of Climate change on the Fisheries of Lake Victoria and this will be a good source of direction.

I kindly request you mail it to
C/o Onesmo Z Sigalla
Don Consult Ltd
P.O.BOX 4218
Dar es Salaam
Your Consideration is highly appreciated

Request for complimentary copy

Dear Sir/ madam
I am a documentalist for environment at the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) an independent regional information resource centre which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of key development processes in the SADC region through the collection, production and dissemination of information, and enabling the capacity to generate and use information.

I write to request a complimentary copy of this report.

our Address is
SARDC
15 Downie road
Belgravia
Harare
Zimbabwe.

your assistance is greatly appreciated

Regards
Michael

We will post a link to the WRI 2008 report on our webpage and send a mail to our list of 1500 members in Nicaragua and Mesoamerica. Most of them do read only spanish, when will a spanish version be out soon ? If there are no immediate plans for the spanish version we will be glad to collaborate to bring out the spanish version.

It is a key report for us in our policy work. Thanks and Congratulations

Hi,

Thanks for your interest! We don’t have plans at this time to do a Spanish edition, but will get in touch with you if we do plan to. Our 2005 Spanish translation was recently posted, however here: http://pdf.wri.org/recursosmundialeslariquezadel_pobre.pdf

thanks for the reply

hope WRI takes the decision to translate the document
in Spanish soon, it is tood good a document and too timely
one, for not to do the translation immediately

we will wait for you communication

regards

Dear Sir/Madam,
CRADLE (Centre for Research and Action on Developing Locales, regions and the Environment) is a new non-profit organisation engaged in development policy research in Nigeria and collaborates with some WRI staff. Sadly, we are yet to receive core funding and therefore unable to buy the World Resources Series especially those for 2008 and 2007, which we require for our research. Could you please kindly assist our library with these two series and more if you can be as kind.

Our website at: http://www.ngrcradle.org, shows our work.

Please post, by surface mail, the copies to:
Richard Ingwe (CRADLE)
Geography & Planning Dept.
University of Calabar
Calabar
Nigeria

kind regards
Richard Ingwe