The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.

For decades, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations have invested in programs aimed at alleviating poverty and those aimed at protecting the environment. Whether these investments mutually reinforce each other or act in opposition has been widely debated by scholars. Studies that hav...

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Autores principales: Alpízar, Francisco, Ferraro, Paul J.
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104783
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spelling RepoCATIE103042021-12-22T19:15:19Z The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs. Alpízar, Francisco Ferraro, Paul J. EFECTOS DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE POBREZA MEDIO AMBIENTE POBREZA CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO SOSTENIBILIDAD ECOSISTEMA RECURSOS NATURALES INCENTIVOS FINANCIEROS MITIGACIÓN DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO For decades, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations have invested in programs aimed at alleviating poverty and those aimed at protecting the environment. Whether these investments mutually reinforce each other or act in opposition has been widely debated by scholars. Studies that have tried to resolve this debate suffer from a variety of shortcomings, including the challenge of inferring causal relationships from non-experimental data. To help address some of these shortcomings, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can play an important role. When done well, RCTs permit credible causal inferences and can be designed to directly test competing assumptions about how the world works. Yet few RCTs of poverty programs examine their effects on the environment. Worse, we know of no RCTs reporting the poverty effects of environmental interventions, which may be unsurprising given that environmental scholars rarely use RCTs. The lack of RCTs that can shed light on the relationships between actions to alleviate poverty and actions to reverse global environmental change is an obstacle to advancing the science and practice of sustainability. If scholars of poverty include environmental outcomes in their RCTs, and if environmental scholars use RCTs to study the poverty effects of environmental programs, the longrunning debates about the dual challenges of alleviating poverty and protecting the environment could be resolved... 2021-02-15T05:36:09Z 2021-02-15T05:36:09Z 2019 Artículo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104783 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10304 en World Development, Volumen 127 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf
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topic EFECTOS DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE
POBREZA
MEDIO AMBIENTE
POBREZA
CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
SOSTENIBILIDAD
ECOSISTEMA
RECURSOS NATURALES
INCENTIVOS FINANCIEROS
MITIGACIÓN DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
spellingShingle EFECTOS DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE
POBREZA
MEDIO AMBIENTE
POBREZA
CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
SOSTENIBILIDAD
ECOSISTEMA
RECURSOS NATURALES
INCENTIVOS FINANCIEROS
MITIGACIÓN DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
Alpízar, Francisco
Ferraro, Paul J.
The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.
description For decades, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations have invested in programs aimed at alleviating poverty and those aimed at protecting the environment. Whether these investments mutually reinforce each other or act in opposition has been widely debated by scholars. Studies that have tried to resolve this debate suffer from a variety of shortcomings, including the challenge of inferring causal relationships from non-experimental data. To help address some of these shortcomings, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can play an important role. When done well, RCTs permit credible causal inferences and can be designed to directly test competing assumptions about how the world works. Yet few RCTs of poverty programs examine their effects on the environment. Worse, we know of no RCTs reporting the poverty effects of environmental interventions, which may be unsurprising given that environmental scholars rarely use RCTs. The lack of RCTs that can shed light on the relationships between actions to alleviate poverty and actions to reverse global environmental change is an obstacle to advancing the science and practice of sustainability. If scholars of poverty include environmental outcomes in their RCTs, and if environmental scholars use RCTs to study the poverty effects of environmental programs, the longrunning debates about the dual challenges of alleviating poverty and protecting the environment could be resolved...
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title The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.
title_short The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.
title_full The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.
title_fullStr The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.
title_full_unstemmed The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.
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