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Broken Pumps and Promises

Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health

Edited by Evan A. Thomas
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 18th Mar 2016
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 16mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN-10: 3319286412
ISBN-13: 9783319286419
Barcode No: 9783319286419
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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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"This text is a practical compilation that provides excellent reference information about how to establish incentive-based programs and describes examples of those programs in relevant settings. The book is a compelling must-read book for funders, implementers, and governments who are focused on sustained impact. A great book motivates the reader to be reflective, and certainly, this book inspires the reader to be thoughtful about program design." (Helen Petach, EcoHealth, Vol. 14, 2017)