Land Degradation, Poverty and Marginality

摘要: This chapter emphasizes the complexity and plurality of types magnitudes causal relationships between poverty environmental degradation, based on a review literature. The authors use case studies focused issue land degradation to illustrate these relationships. Land (LD) is influenced by natural anthropogenic factors, including socioeconomic conditions. LD importance people because it decreases provision terrestrial ecosystem services benefits they provide for human well-being. A key question whether lower levels well-being lead more or less destructive resource management strategies. call systematic science-based assessment worldwide as necessary first step toward inclusion in global measures