World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience - Growing the Wealth of the Poor
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Full Report (PDF, 19.8 Mb)
Quick Guide (PDF, 3.5 Mb)
Sections
- Introduction, Table of Contents & Foreword (PDF, 919 Kb)
- Chapter 1: Scaling Up Ecosystem Enterprise (PDF, 5.5 Mb)
- Chapter 2: Building Ownership, Capacity and Connection (PDF, 4.8 Mb)
- Chapter 3: Roots to Resilience: Case Studies (PDF, 2.3 Mb)
- Chapter 4: Driving the Scaling Process (PDF, 1.2 Mb)
- Chapter 5: Recommendations: Advancing Enterprise Resilience (PDF, 3.1 Mb)
- Data Tables (PDF, 1.0 Mb)
- Acknowledgments, References, Credits & Index (PDF, 1.5 Mb)
- World Resources 2005 -- The Wealth of the Poor: Managing ecosystems to fight poverty
- Recursos Mundiales 2004: Decisiones para la Tierra: Equilibrio, voz y poder
- World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, voice, and power
- World Resources 2000-2001: People and ecosystems: The fraying web of life
- World Resources 1998-99: Environmental change and human health
- World Resources 1996-97: The urban environment
- World Resources 1994-95: People and the Environment
- World Resources 1992-93: Guide to Global Environment
- World Resources 1990-91: Climate Change in Latin America Focus
- World Resources 1988-89: An Assessment of the Resource Base that Supports the Global Economy
- World Resources 1987: An assessment of the resource base that supports the global economy
- World Resources 1986: An assessment of the resource base that supports the global economy
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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Hallo Sir/Madam Am a Maters
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
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Your Consideration is highly appreciated
Request for complimentary
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.
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your assistance is greatly appreciated
Regards
Michael
We will post a link to the
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
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
Hi thanks for the reply hope
Hi
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
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
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