Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural-Resource Use

Arjan Ruijs

ISBN 10: 1402083025 / ISBN 13: 9781402083020

Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 2008, 2008

Beschreibung

Neuware -Reduction of poverty is a tremendous and persistent challenge for the global community. Given that the livelihood of millions is at stake, there is an urgent need to reconsider the causes of and the remedies for poverty. Poverty and its reduction are closely linked to the natural-resources base. The quality and bounty of the local environment certainly affect living conditions of the poor and their poverty is often seen as a contributing factor to the degraded condition of the local environment. Teasing apart the direction of causality in this resource¿poverty nexus is a serious empirical challenge.This book contributes to an improved understanding of the economic dimensions of environmental and natural-resource management and poverty alleviation. The ten chapters of the book offer an overview of the current knowledge concerning the relation between poverty, environment and natural-resource use. Three sides of the debate receive particular attention. First, the relation between resource use and poverty is discussed from a theoretical point of view. Second, it is questioned whether payments for environmental services or considering values of resources can be an effective tool for stimulating both sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation. Third, alternative strategies to break the land degradation¿poverty cycle are discussed.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781402083020

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural-Resource Use
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 2008
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1402083025
• ISBN-13: 9781402083020
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 241B x 160 H x 17 T Millimeter Breite: 241 mm, Höhe: 160 mm, Tiefe: 17 mm
• Gewicht: 506 Gramm

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Reduction of poverty is a tremendous and persistent challenge for the global community. Given that the livelihood of millions is at stake, there is an urgent need to reconsider the causes of and the remedies for poverty. Poverty and its reduction are closely linked to the natural-resources base. The quality and bounty of the local environment certainly affect living conditions of the poor and their poverty is often seen as a contributing factor to the degraded condition of the local environment. Teasing apart the direction of causality in this resource-poverty nexus is a serious empirical challenge.

This book contributes to an improved understanding of the economic dimensions of environmental and natural-resource management and poverty alleviation. The ten chapters of the book offer an overview of the current knowledge concerning the relation between poverty, environment and natural-resource use. Three sides of the debate receive particular attention. First, the relation between resource use and poverty is discussed from a theoretical point of view. Second, it is questioned whether payments for environmental services or considering values of resources can be an effective tool for stimulating both sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation. Third, alternative strategies to break the land degradation-poverty cycle are discussed.