Editors:
- An excellent overview of the economic analysis of poverty and natural-resource use links
- A wide variety of contributions by authors from the North and from the South
- Coverage of a topic that is important and gaining importance in the next decades
- Papers that treat in an integrated way problems related to poverty and resource degradation
Part of the book series: Wageningen UR Frontis Series (WURF, volume 25)
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Environmental Economics & Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University & Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Rob B. Dellink, Arjan Ruijs
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural-Resource Use
Editors: Rob B. Dellink, Arjan Ruijs
Series Title: Wageningen UR Frontis Series
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8302-0Published: 08 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8303-7Published: 25 March 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 210