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Environment and Human Development Integrating environment into national policy... • 2002 Kanjee and Dobie review No academic framework for environment and HD Contextual role of environ

Environment and Human

Development

Integrating environment into national

policy

• 2002 Kanjee and Dobie review

No academic framework for

environment and HD

Contextual role of environment

confirmed

Environment based NHDRs did analyse

HD with respect to environment

Proposals (2002)

• “Green” the HDI

• Develop new environment index

• Prepare an environment and

development HDR

Response (2002)

• “Context” argument

• Resistance to tampering

• Resistance to added complexity

• Danger of opening up to other issues

The challenge now

• Move from theory to practice

Why environment is important to the poor

• Livelihoods

• Health

• Vulnerability

Gifts Production

Zimbabwe - poorest 20% - Cavendish 1999

Disability adjusted life-years per million people

• Exposure to risk  x capacity to cope e.g Drought (Deaths per 1 million exposed)

<1 India

41 Somalia

620 Chad

Relative vulnerability

Environmental % of wealth

+3.8+347

Costa Rica

+0.9-83

Madagascar

+1.5-76

Niger

+4.9-12

Mozambique

Income change (%)

Per capita wealth change ($)

1194

OECD

39258

SSA

38110

MENA

1368

Latin America

%People (million)

People living on fragile lands

Environmental

Economic Social

Environmental

Economic Social

UNDP’s environment and

Highlands

Rivers

Lake

But people invade

and open up new

agricultural land

HD

No education or health services for

squatters

HD

Rivers

Lake

Reduced water flow in

of land productivity

HD

HD

The challenge of the

The challenge to UNDP

• Eliminate challenge between agendas, especially human development and

sustainable development

• Generate empirical studies of

environment/HD linkages

• An environmental HDR