Overview -- A unique model for environmental management -- Actors and institutions -- Decentralization: a balancing act -- Setting environmental priorities: top down and bottom up -- Waterborne diseases remain widespread -- Improving air quality -- A silent killer: indoor air pollution -- The environmental cost of accelerated urban growth -- Living with natural disasters -- Water management in a water-rich country -- Land degradation and deforestation -- Biodiversity loss and other global environmental problems -- Conclusions and recommendations.
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"Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction: A Country Environmental Analysis for Colombia proposes cost-effective policy and technical interventions aimed at abating the cost of environmental degradation and supporting more equitable and sustainable economic growth." "Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction begins by exploring institutional change and environmental priorities in Colombia over the past 50 years, a time of substantial progress in environmental protection and rapid transition from a largely rural to a highly urbanized economy. Part II assesses the burden of disease rooted in inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; poor air quality; natural disasters; and environmental management practices to reduce that burden. A discussion of the environmental costs of rapid and unplanned urbanization is included. Part III assesses the sustainable management of Colombia's rich endowment of natural resources." "This book provides a wealth of information for policy decision makers, government officials, and other professionals working in environmental policy and management, poverty reduction strategies, public health, environmental economics, and civil society issues."--Jacket.
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Environmental priorities and poverty reduction.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Environmental health-- Colombia.
Fuel-- Health aspects-- Colombia.
Indoor air pollution-- Colombia.
Industries-- Environmental aspects-- Colombia.
Pollution-- Colombia.
Poverty-- Colombia.
Air-- Pollution intérieure-- Colombie.
Combustibles-- Aspect sanitaire-- Colombie.
Environnement-- Colombie.
Hygiène du milieu-- Colombie.
Industrie-- Aspect de l'environnement-- Colombie.
Pauvreté-- Colombie.
Pollution-- Colombie.
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Ecology.
Environmental health.
Fattigdom-- Colombia.
Indoor air pollution.
Indústrias (aspectos ambientais)-- Colômbia.
Industries-- Environmental aspects.
Luftföroreningar-- hälsoaspekter-- Colombia.
Miljöföroreningar-- Colombia.
Pobreza-- Colômbia.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Environmental Policy.
Pollution.
Poluição-- Colômbia.
Poverty.
Proteção ambiental-- Colômbia.
Saúde ambiental-- Colômbia.
SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)