World in Transition 4

At the start of the 21st century, fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community, as highlighted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002.This book shows how poverty reduction and environmental protection must be forged into a coherent policy from the local to the global level. Only an integrated approach which involves civil-society actors can fulfill the guiding vision of sustainable development.This book covers: * The challenges of poverty reduction and environmental policy* Recommendations on policy coherence* Breathing life into the Global Partnership for Environment and Development