World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience - Growing the Wealth of the Poor

WRI

2008

978-1-56973-600-5

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The reality of poverty today is that almost half the world’s population lives on less than $2 per day and that some 75 percent of them, almost 2 billion, live in rural areas largely dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods. World Resources 2008 argues that properly designed enterprises can improve those livelihoods and, in the process, create resilience—economic, social, environmental—that can cushion the impacts of climate change, can keep communities rooted, and can help provide needed social stability. The report builds on World Resources 2005: The Wealth of the Poor, which showed that ecosystems can become the focus of a powerful model for nature-based enterprise that delivers continuing economic and social benefits to the poor, even as it sustains the natural resource base. Evidence shows that poor rural families empowered with secure resource rights can increase their income stream from nature significantly with prudent ecosystem management. World Resources 2008 explores what is necessary to allow such nature-based enterprises to scale up so as to have greater impact—geographically, economically, politically. It identifies three critical elements: community ownership and self-interest; the role of intermediate organizations in providing skills and capacity; and the importance of networks—formal and informal—as support and learning structures. It outlines specific actions that governments at all levels can take to encourage and support such change. World Resources 2008 is the twelfth volume in the series. In conjunction with EarthTrends, it presents a full range of statistics on environmental and development trends. [Extracto, Contracarátula]

Desarrollo; Estadísticas; Guatemala; Medio Ambiente; Nivel mundial; Pobreza; Recursos naturales;