Overview
Casts new light on the ways of making intervention efforts in global conservation and development successful
Offers detailed case studies as well as theoretical treatments of pay-for-performance models of humanitarian and environmental interventions
Deals with aspects of environmental health, reduction of poverty, improvements in ecology and climate, sanitation and conservation of water
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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About this book
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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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Evan is also a social business entrepreneur engaged in global health programs. Evan was a founding volunteer with Engineers Without Borders-USA in 2002, which led to co-founding Manna Energy Limited in 2007. In 2012, Evan co-founded SWEETSense Inc., an Oregon technology company. Evan is currently the Chief Operating Officer of DelAgua Health, a social enterprise working with the Government of Rwanda.
Prior to joining PSU, Evan worked as a civil servant at the NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas for six years. At NASA, Evan was a principal investigator and project manager in the Life Support and Habitability Systems Branch working on concepts and flight hardware for sustainable Moon and Mars spacecraft.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Broken Pumps and Promises
Book Subtitle: Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health
Editors: Evan A. Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28643-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28641-9Published: 18 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80396-8Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28643-3Published: 09 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 240
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Health, Water and Health, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Social Policy, Climate Change, R & D/Technology Policy