Useful Literature on Poverty & Environment Links

Selection by: Ivonne Cruz

Updated version: 070705


A) In CSC database and online:

Aggregating Governance Indicators
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay & Pablo Zoido-Lobatón (The World Bank)
URL:http://wb-cu.car.chula.ac.th/Papers/worldbank/wps2195.pdf

On the Methodological Foundations of Composite Indicators Used for Ranking Countries
Giuseppe Munda & Michela Nardo (UAB)
URL:http://webfarm.jrc.cec.eu.int/uasa/events/oecd_12may03/Background/material/MundaNardo.pdf

Exploring the Links - UNEP
URL:http://www.unep.org/dpdl/poverty_environment/PDF_docs/economics_exploring_the_links.pdf

A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-Being
O. Zaim (WIDER Institute)
URL:http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2005/rp2005-05%20zaim.pdf

Indicators for Sustainable Development: Theory, Method, Applications
Hartmut Bossel (IISD)
URL:http://www.formambiente.org/isa/Sezioni/Materiali/Indicatori.pdf

Measuring well-being with an integrated system of economic and social accounts
Peter van de Ven, Brugt Kazemier & Steven Keuning
URL:http://www.cbs.nl/en/publications/articles/macro-economics/national-accounts/wellbeing_def.pdf

Non-monetary Indicators of Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion: What Does Exist and What Do We Need?
Vranken J., F. de Keulenaer & J. Estivill. 2001 (University of Antwerp)
URL:http://www.ufsia.ac.be/ESPICE/paper.PDF

A Survey of Indicators of Economic and Social Well-being (Second Draft)
Andrew Sharpe, 1999 (Centre for the Study of Living Standards)
URL:http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/cprn/english/sie_e.pdf

Sustainability and Well-being Indicators
Eric Neumayer, 2004 (WIDER Institute, Research Paper No. 2004/23)
URL:http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2004/rp2004-023.pdf


B) Other literature (free online if indicated):

A multidimensional assessment of well-being based on Sen’s functioning approach
Enrica Chiappero Martinetti
URL:http://www.unipv.it/websiep/wp/007.pdf

Growing pains: a conceptual framework for considering integrated assessments
DALE S. ROTHMAN & JOHN B. ROBINSON, 1997 (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 46: 23 – 43)

A spatial approach for integrating and analyzing indicators of ecological and human condition
Michael E. Troyer, 2002 (Ecological Indicators 2: 211–220)

Poverty and Environmental Degradation: A Review and Analysis of the Nexus
ANANTHA K. DURAIAPPAH, 1998 (World Development 26: 2169-2179)

Send any literature comments & recommendations to ivonne@catunesco.upc.edu