Rural Poverty and Natural Resource Degradation

Edward Barbier

Chapter 8 in Rural Poverty in Latin America, 2000, pp 152-181 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The main purpose of this chapter is to investigate the influence of rural poverty on resource degradation in Latin America. The main trends in resource degradation that will be examined are rural households’ decisions to degrade rather than conserve land resources, and the expansion of frontier agricultural activity that contributes to deforestation. In addition, the influences of recent policy changes on poverty—environment linkages will be explored.

Keywords: Latin American Country; Rural Household; Rural Poverty; Forest Conversion; Soil Conservation Measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333977798_8

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