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 environmentaland 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 debatereceive particular attention. Excellent overview of the economic analysis of poverty and natural-resource use links 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 INDICE: From the contents Searching for explanations for the resource-poverty nexus.- Payments for and values of environmental and forestry resources.- Sustainable land use.- List of contributors.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-8303-7
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 212
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés