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Poverty, Development, and Environment

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posted on 2021-11-15, 21:30 authored by Edward B. Barbier
This paper examines the complex relationship that exists between poverty and natural resource degradation in developing countries. The rural poor are often concentrated in fragile, or less favorable, environmental areas. Consequently, their livelihoods can be intimately dependent on natural resource use and ecosystem services. The relationship between poverty and natural resource degradation may depend on a complex range of choices and tradeoffs available to the poor, which in the absence of capital, labor, and land markets, is affected by their access to outside employment and any natural resource endowments. The paper develops a poverty-environment model to characterize some of these linkages, and concludes by discussing policy implications and avenues for further research.

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eng

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English

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University of Wyoming. Libraries

Journal title

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

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Faculty Publications - Economics

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  • Library Sciences - LIBS