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Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Biodiversity
Synthesis Biological Diversity and Poverty
Alleviation
Oliver T. Coomes Editor-in-Chief, World
Development Associate Professor Department of
Geography McGill University Montreal, Canada

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Biodiversity Poverty Alleviation
1. Useful Measures of Biodiversity - what
matters why with respect to rural poor? 2.
Poverty-Biodiversity Linkages - looking left,
then right - vital logic of economic
livelihood 3. Experience to Date - other
literatures relevant - Conservation-Development
experiments 4. New Questions/New
Approaches
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New Questions/New Approaches
1. What are the biodiversity outcomes of poverty
alleviation programs? 2. How do
biodiversity changes influence key welfare
indicators? 3. Under what circumstances/conditio
ns to we get win-win outcomes? 4. How are
biodiversity and poverty related
dynamically? Methods panel designs
hypotheses-driven comparative studies
natural experiments (interventions
shocks)