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Displaying 81 - 85 of 93Mapping a healthier future: how spatial analysis can guide pro-poor water and sanitation planning in Uganda
Mapping a healthier future: how spatial analysis can guide pro-poor water and sanitation planning in Uganda
Nature Benefits in Kenya: an Atlas of Ecosystem and Human Well-Being
Nature’s Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being integrates spatial data on poverty and the environment
in Kenya, providing a new approach to examining the links between ecosystem services (the benefits derived from nature)
and the poor. This publication focuses on the environmental resources
most Kenyans rely on to earn their livelihoods, such as soil, water, forest,
rangeland, livestock, and wildlife. The atlas overlays georeferenced
statistical information on population and household expenditures with
Nature's benefits in Kenya. An atlas of ecosystems and human well-being
This report provides a new approach to integrating spatial data on poverty and ecosystems in Kenya. It is endorsed by five permanent secretaries in Kenya and with a foreword by Wangari Maathai (recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize). It provides a new approach to examining the links between ecosystem services (the benefits derived from nature) and the poor. Through a series of maps and analyses, the authors focus on the environmental resources most Kenyans rely on such as soil, water, forest, rangeland, livestock, and wildlife.
UNESCAP-IWMI Seminar ? Environmental and Public Health Risks Due to Contamination of Soils, Crops, Surface and Groundwater from Urban, Industrial and Natural Sources in SOUTHEAST ASIA, Hanoi, Vietnam, 10-12 December 2002
