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Urban livelihoods : a people-centred approach to reducing poverty / edited by Carole Rakodi with Tony Lloyd-Jones.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002Description: xxii, 306 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1853838616
  • 9781853838613
  • 1853838608
  • 9781853838606
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5091732091724 21
LOC classification:
  • HV4173 .U73 2002
Contents:
Foreword / Clare Short -- Preface: The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and the Department for International Development -- Introduction / Carole Rakodi -- Pt. 1. Livelihoods and the Poverty Context. 1. A Livelihoods Approach - Conceptual Issues and Definitions / Carole Rakodi. 2. Economic Development, Urbanization and Poverty / Carole Rakodi -- Pt. 2. Understanding the Situations and Strategies of Poor People. 3. The Urban Context and Poor People / Sheilah Meikle. 4. Seeking an Understanding of Poverty that Recognizes Rural-Urban Differences and Rural-Urban Linkages / David Satterthwaite and Cecilia Tacoli. 5. Living in the Present, Investing in the Future - Household Security Among the Poor / Jo Beall -- Pt. 3. The Policy Implications of Urban Livelihoods Analysis -- Introduction / Carole Rakodi. 6. Municipal Government, Urban Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction - Identifying the Transmission Mechanisms Between Growth and Poverty / Philip Amis. 7. Support for Livelihood Strategies / Stuart Rutherford, Malcolm Harper and John Grierson. 8. Social Capital, Local Networks and Community Development / Sue Phillips. 9. Tenure and Shelter in Urban Livelihoods / Geoffrey Payne. 10. Health, Health Services and Environmental Health / Trudy Harpham and Emma Grant. 11. Infrastructure and Environmental Health Services / Mansoor Ali. 12. Spatial Planning, Access and Infrastructure / Alison Brown and Tony Lloyd-Jones. 13. Urban Livelihoods - Issues for Urban Governance and Management / Nick Devas -- Pt. 4. Urban Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Experience. 14. Reducing Urban Poverty in India - Lessons from Projects Supported by DFID / Susan Loughhead and Carole Rakodi. 15. The Jamaica Urban Poverty Project / Sue Jones / Kingston Restoration Company. 16. Strengthening Urban Livelihoods in Zambia - PUSH II and PROSPECT / David Sanderson and Darren Hedley. 17. Lessons from the Experience of Some Urban Poverty-reduction Programmes / David Satterthwaite -- Pt. 5. Conclusions. 18. Issues in Designing New Projects and Programmes / Sue Jones. 19. Conclusions / Carole Rakodi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Clare Short -- Preface: The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and the Department for International Development -- Introduction / Carole Rakodi -- Pt. 1. Livelihoods and the Poverty Context. 1. A Livelihoods Approach - Conceptual Issues and Definitions / Carole Rakodi. 2. Economic Development, Urbanization and Poverty / Carole Rakodi -- Pt. 2. Understanding the Situations and Strategies of Poor People. 3. The Urban Context and Poor People / Sheilah Meikle. 4. Seeking an Understanding of Poverty that Recognizes Rural-Urban Differences and Rural-Urban Linkages / David Satterthwaite and Cecilia Tacoli. 5. Living in the Present, Investing in the Future - Household Security Among the Poor / Jo Beall -- Pt. 3. The Policy Implications of Urban Livelihoods Analysis -- Introduction / Carole Rakodi. 6. Municipal Government, Urban Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction - Identifying the Transmission Mechanisms Between Growth and Poverty / Philip Amis. 7. Support for Livelihood Strategies / Stuart Rutherford, Malcolm Harper and John Grierson. 8. Social Capital, Local Networks and Community Development / Sue Phillips. 9. Tenure and Shelter in Urban Livelihoods / Geoffrey Payne. 10. Health, Health Services and Environmental Health / Trudy Harpham and Emma Grant. 11. Infrastructure and Environmental Health Services / Mansoor Ali. 12. Spatial Planning, Access and Infrastructure / Alison Brown and Tony Lloyd-Jones. 13. Urban Livelihoods - Issues for Urban Governance and Management / Nick Devas -- Pt. 4. Urban Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Experience. 14. Reducing Urban Poverty in India - Lessons from Projects Supported by DFID / Susan Loughhead and Carole Rakodi. 15. The Jamaica Urban Poverty Project / Sue Jones / Kingston Restoration Company. 16. Strengthening Urban Livelihoods in Zambia - PUSH II and PROSPECT / David Sanderson and Darren Hedley. 17. Lessons from the Experience of Some Urban Poverty-reduction Programmes / David Satterthwaite -- Pt. 5. Conclusions. 18. Issues in Designing New Projects and Programmes / Sue Jones. 19. Conclusions / Carole Rakodi.

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