Poverty, environment, development: a many-patterned nexus
By: Nadkarni, M.V.
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ArticlePublisher: 2000Description: p.1184-190.Subject(s): Poverty - India | Poverty
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Economic and Political WeeklySummary: The thesis that poverty leads to environmental degradation and hence to more poverty deals with only one of the several patterns of the poverty-environment-development nexus prevailing in India and the third world. The other patterns include a trade-off between poverty alleviation and conservation of the environment; necessary conservation which hurts the poor, at least in the short run; development which aggravates both poverty and environmental degradation; and persistent poverty helping the cause of the environment. There are also heartening instances of this cause prospering side by side with that of poverty alleviation. - Reproduced
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The thesis that poverty leads to environmental degradation and hence to more poverty deals with only one of the several patterns of the poverty-environment-development nexus prevailing in India and the third world. The other patterns include a trade-off between poverty alleviation and conservation of the environment; necessary conservation which hurts the poor, at least in the short run; development which aggravates both poverty and environmental degradation; and persistent poverty helping the cause of the environment. There are also heartening instances of this cause prospering side by side with that of poverty alleviation. - Reproduced
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