Evaluating environment in international development / edited by Juha I. Uitto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Introduction and Conceptual Background.-- 1. Evaluating Environment in International Development .--2. A Global Public Goods Perspective on Environment and Poverty.-- 3. Evaluation at the Nexus.-- 4. Poverty, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction.-- Part 2: Approaches and Challenges in Evaluating Environment and Sustainable Development.-- 5. Using Big Data and Geospatial Approaches in Evaluating Environmental Interventions.-- 6. Multiple Actors and Confounding Factors.-- 7. Assessing Progress Towards Impact in Environmental Programmes.-- 8. Meta-Assessment of Climate Mitigation Evaluations .--9. A Programme Theory Approach to Evaluating Normative Environmental Interventions .--10. From Evaluation of Joint programmes to Joint Evaluation of SDGs-ready Interventions.-- 11. Evaluating the Poverty-Environment Nexus in Africa .--12. Small Grants, Big Impacts: Aggregation Challenges.-- 13. Green Economy Performance of Environmental Initiatives in Latin-America and the Caribbean.-- 14. Evaluating International Support to Transboundary Aquifer Management Programmes .--15. Disaster Risk Management in the SDG Era .--16. The CGIAR Approach to Evaluation of Climate Change, Environment, and Natural Resources Management.

"This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing countries. Evaluating Environment in International Development focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is an essential tool for providing evidence for decision-makers. Moving beyond projects and programmes, it explores normative work on the environment as well as environmental consequences of economic and social development efforts. This new edition reflects on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals and considers how they have influenced efforts in a wide range of countries and what the implications are for evaluation. It also explores ways in which Big Data and geospatial approaches might be utilised. Significantly updated throughout to reflect recent developments in climate change research, and on the implications of the 2020 pandemic, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment studies, development studies, international relations, sustainable development and evaluation, as well as practitioners in international organizations and development and environmental NGOs"-- Provided by publisher.