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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Alpízar, Francisco, Ferraro, Paul J.
Format:	Artículo
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2021
Subjects:	EFECTOS DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE POBREZA MEDIO AMBIENTE CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO SOSTENIBILIDAD ECOSISTEMA RECURSOS NATURALES INCENTIVOS FINANCIEROS MITIGACIÓN DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104783 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10304

id	RepoCATIE10304
record_format	dspace
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
institution	Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
collection	Repositorio CATIE
language	Inglés
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...
format	Artículo
author	Alpízar, Francisco Ferraro, Paul J.
author_facet	Alpízar, Francisco Ferraro, Paul J.
author_sort	Alpízar, Francisco
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.
title_sort	environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: the missing rcts.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104783 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/10304
work_keys_str_mv	AT alpizarfrancisco theenvironmentaleffectsofpovertyprogramsandthepovertyeffectsofenvironmentalprogramsthemissingrcts AT ferraropaulj theenvironmentaleffectsofpovertyprogramsandthepovertyeffectsofenvironmentalprogramsthemissingrcts AT alpizarfrancisco environmentaleffectsofpovertyprogramsandthepovertyeffectsofenvironmentalprogramsthemissingrcts AT ferraropaulj environmentaleffectsofpovertyprogramsandthepovertyeffectsofenvironmentalprogramsthemissingrcts
_version_	1808116881789288448

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

Similar Items