Description
There is very little argument that the world is facing severe environmental challenges. Ongoing air and water pollution, increasing energy consumption, and the depletion of natural resources have all placed considerable stress on the capacity of our environment to support the present quality of human life in a sustainable manner.Ensuring a Sustainable Future does what few previous works have: it examines these trends' disproportionate impact on the poor and the economically viable solutions that can serve to remedy them -- solutions that simultaneously address environmental and economic problems. This gap in previous research, evidence, and writing has left low-income countries often unwilling to take on major environmental problems and many poor communities believing they faced impossible choices between improving the environment in which they live and increasing the jobs and income available.Bringing together evidence-based recommendations and in-depth case studies of successful policies and programs around the world, Ensuring a Sustainable Future examines innovative solutions to this crucial challenge. In doing so, it addresses a comprehensive range of environmental sustainability challenges affecting low-, middle-, and high-income countries.
Table of Contents
IntroductionThe Environment and the Economy: Finding Equitable and Effective SolutionsJody Heymann and Magda BarreraSection 1: Moving Forward on the Environment and the Economy: Creating Jobs, Building Healthy CommunitiesChapter 1The Essential Connection: Environmental Sustainability, Community Stability and Equitable Development in Struggling Cities in High-Income CountriesTed HowardChapter 2Community Action in Informal Settlements: Strategies for Improved Environmental Health and Equity in Low and Middle Income CountriesDavid SatterthwaiteChapter 3Achieving Environmental Equity: Race, Place, and the Movement to Build Healthy Communities in the United StatesAngela Glover BlackwellChapter 4Building Income and Social Equity through Environmental Sustainability: Lessons from Vancouver's Downtown EastsideMitra ThompsonChapter 5New Skills for the Green Economy: Two Training Programs for Job Seekers in the United StatesCosmin Paduraru and Kara QuennellChapter 6Green Social Entrepreneurship as a Poverty-Reduction Strategy: TIDE India's Use of Technological Innovation for Healthier and More Sustainable CommunitiesShannon LockhartSection 2: Addressing Specific Environmental Challenges in an Economically Sustainable WayChapter 7Moving Towards Sustainable Urban Transport: How Can We Integrate Environmental, Health and Equity Objectives Globally?David Banister and James WoodcockChapter 8The New Challenges of Rapid Urban Growth: Imperatives and Strategies for Transport in IndiaMadhav BadamiChapter 9Healthy and Sustainable Agriculture: Working with Farmers to Transform Food Production in Latin AmericaDonald Cole, Gordon Prain and Willy PradelChapter 10Access to Healthy Foods in Urban Settings: A Comprehensive Strategy for Low-income Communities in MontrealLise BertrandChapter 11Water for Development: Investing in Health and Economic Wellbeing GloballyWilliam Cosgrove and Håkan TroppChapter 12The Potential of Clean Energy for Equity in Remote Communities in the NorthTim WeisChapter 13Remote Indigenous Populations and Climate Change: Reducing the Impacts on Health and WellbeingJames Ford and Peter Adams
