Poverty and the Environment: Reversing the Downward Spiral

摘要: The author discusses the poverty situation in developing countries and their impact on environmental degradation as poor deplete natural resources such forests, soils, water supplies faster than fear they will soon loose access to them, drawing numerous examples. suggests some of most innovative strategies for dismantling traps' local parts-lack secure control over productive (e.g. information, financial support), physical weakness illness, population growth powerlessness