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This volume highlights some of the§challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and§presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the§gap between intent and impact. These include impact crediting systems,§objective evidence gathering tools, and social businesses that service environmental§health. The case studies presented cross disciplines, scales, organizational§and national boundaries and can defy easy categorization. A water project may§be designed for a health impact, but financed with a climate change tool, and§leverage high tech cell phone sensors. A cookstove program may be primarily§concerned with employment and capacity building, but balance environmental and§health concerns.§§Presently, the impact of interventions may not§always be aligned to the intent sought. In this book, readers will discover§alternative ways to move the mindset of funders and implementers toward§pay-for-performance models of humanitarian and environmental interventions.§Undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in social enterprise, social§entrepreneurship, global health, appropriate technology, international§development and development engineering would benefit from these increasingly§non-traditional case studies that challenge commonly accepted presentations of§poverty reduction and social enterprise.§§

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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Public health & preventive medicine

• Full title: Broken Pumps and Promises
• Subtitle: Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health
• Author: Evan Thomas
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9783319286419
• ISBN: 3319286412
• ID: 02862555
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 547 g
• Dimensions: 165 × 242 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. March 2016

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