Environment and Poverty: Perspectives, Propositions, Policies

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Environment and Poverty: Perspectives, Propositions, Policies

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J.B. (Hans) Opschoor

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This paper reviews what insights environmental and ecological economics have provided regarding the 'poverty-environment'- nexus within the 'EnvironmentDevelopment'-system. Various perspectives are discussed, such as 'the poor as agents' and 'the poor as victims' hypotheses, and more dynamic/interactive variants to these. Earlier reviews are up-dated. New perspectives on the nexus are identified, including: (a) institutions oriented approaches, (b) livelihood based analyses, (c) capabilities frameworks, (d) rights-oriented approaches, (e) pricing of environmental services (PES). Policies forwarded at the international level are discussed. Some of the new perspectives identified are beginning to penetrate into these proposals. The validity of PES as an overall recipe to dealing with the nexus is examined critically.

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Paper provided by Institute of Social Studies in its series Working Papers - General Series with number 437.

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Date of creation: 2007
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