Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction (eBook)

The three editors of this volume, Jane Carter Ingram, Fabrice DeClerck, and Cristina Rumbatis del Rio, have collaborated on multiple projects addressing the role of ecology in poverty reduction and began working together at the Earth Institute of Columbia University. Their educational and professional backgrounds in ecology, geography, and sustainable development have served as the inspiration for this book and their professional pursuits. The editors hope that the issues presented and explored in this volume will serve to encourage ecological scientists and practitioners in international development fields to collaborate together to identify creative, sustainable and viable solutions to challenges preventing poverty alleviation around the world. J. Carter Ingram is the lead of the Ecosystem Services and Payments for Ecosystem Services group at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, NY.  Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio is an Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, NY (USA). Fabrice DeClerck is a professor of community and landscape ecology at CATIE in Costa Rica.

Table of Contents (Primary authors and Section Leaders in Bold Italics)
Forward- Importance of ecology to poverty reduction (Jeffrey Sachs)

Part 1: Introduction (Collective Editors)
Ch 1.1. Purpose
Ch 1.2. Conceptual Framework
Ch 1.3. Organization of Book

Part 2: The Ecological Dimensions and Solutions to Global Development Challenges
Section 2.1. Hunger (Section Leader: Fabrice DeClerck, CATIE and Pedro Sanchez, Columbia University Earth Institute)
Ch. 2.1.1. Ecological Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Ch. 2.1.2. Human Nutrition as an ecological service
Ch. 2.1.3. Achieving Conservation and Food Production in Agricultural Landscapes
Ch. 2.2.4. Ecological Principles for Sustainable Fisheries

Section 2.2. Water Resources (Section Leader: Roberto Lenton and Casey Brown, Int’l Res. Inst. for Climate and Society)
Ch. 2.2.1. Ecological Challenges and Solutions for Insuring Sustainable Supplies of Water for Irrigation
Ch. 2.2.2. Ecological Dimensions of Securing Safe and Abundant Drinking Water
Ch. 2.2.3. Ecology of Watershed Management

Section 2.3. Human Health (Section Leader: Matt Bonds, Earth Institute at Columbia University)
Ch. 2.3.1. Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Ch. 2.3.2. Landscape Ecology: the connections between Land-use Practices and Human Health
Ch. 2.3.3. Ecological Dimensions of HIV/AIDS

Section 2.4. Energy (Dan Kammen at the University of California at Berkeley (proposed) and Nina Sengupta, Auroville)
Ch. 2.4.1. Ecological Considerations of Developing Sustainable Energy Sources
Ch. 2.4.2. Ecological Challenges and Benefits of Using Biofuels as Alternative Fuels
Ch.2.4.3. Ecological Sustainability of Fuelwood as a Dominant Energy Source in Rural Communities

Section 2.5. Disasters (Section Leader: J. Carter Ingram, Wildlife Conservation Society)
Ch. 2.5.1. Ecological Resilience as a guiding principle for sustainable resource management
Ch. 2.5.2. Ecology of Drought
Ch. 2.5.3. Ecological Dimensions of Disaster Prevention

Section 2.6 Climate Change (Section Leader: Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, Rockefeller Foundation)
Ch. 2.6.1. Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Ch. 2.6.2. The Role of Ecology in Mitigating the Societal Impacts of Climate Change
Ch. 2.6.3. The Role of Ecology in Adaptation to Climate Change

*Section 2.7. Education (Section Leader:Robin Sears, School for Field Studies))

*Section 2.8. Gender equality (Section Leader: Isabelle Guttierez, CATIE)
Section 2.9. Synthesis of Direct Application of Ecological Theory (Collective Editors)
*Currently, these are set to be one chapter, but depending on our work with the section leaders may be broken down into different chapters.

Part 3: Mediating Forces for Leveraging Ecology towards Poverty Reduction in a Globalized World (Collective Editors)

Section 3.1. Population (Section Leader: TBD, proposed Joel Cohen)
Ch. 3.1.1. Population Growth
Ch. 3.1.2. Migration
Ch. 3.1.3. Urbanization

Section 3.2. Ecological Restoration (Section leader: TBD, proposed David Lamb)
Ch. 3.2.1. Ecological restoration of degraded environments as a way of improving livelihoods and decreasing vulnerability
Ch. 3.2.2. Ecological restoration of coastal vegetation after disasters
Ch. 3.2.3. Ecological approaches towards environmental remediation
Ch. 3.2.4. Ecological engineering for wetland restoration

Section 3.3. Financing (Section Leader: Guido Schmidt Traub, Team Leader, Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Support Team, New York, United Nations Development Program)
Ch. 3.3.1. Ecological Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Trade
Ch. 3.3.2. The Role of Foreign Aid for Supporting Ecological Applications Towards Development Challenges
Ch. 3.3.3. Natural Resource Markets and Enterprises

Section 3.4. Economics: Payments for Ecosystem Services (Section Leader: Jose Gobbi, CATIE)
Ch. 3.4.1. Payments for Carbon
Ch. 3.4.2. Payments for Water
Ch. 3.4.3. Payments for Biodiversity Conservation

Section 3.5. Governance & Social Movements (Section Leader: Marc Levy, Center for International Earth Science Information Network)
Ch. 3.5.1. Land Tenure
Ch. 3.5.2. Conflict
Ch. 3.5.3. Post-Conflict Situations

Section 3.6. International Policy Mechanisms (Section Leader: Genevieve Patenaude, University of Edinburgh)
Ch. 3.6.1. Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism and the IPCC
Ch. 3.6.2. Convention on Biological Diversity
Ch. 3.6.3. Millennium Development Goals
Ch. 3.6.4. Protected Areas
Ch. 3.6.5. Developing Environmental Policy: Addressing Uncertainty and Significance in Ecological Research

Section 3.7. Synthesis of Mediating Forces (Collective Authors)

Part 4. Conclusions (Collective Authors):
4.1. Doing Interdisciplinary Science: Methods, Challenges and Benefits
4.2. The Future and Evolving Role of Ecology in Society