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Rural Poverty and Natural Resource Degradation

In: Rural Poverty in Latin America

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  • Edward Barbier

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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.

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  • Edward Barbier, 2000. "Rural Poverty and Natural Resource Degradation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ramón López & Alberto Valdés (ed.), Rural Poverty in Latin America, chapter 8, pages 152-181, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97779-8_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977798_8
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    Cited by:

    1. Boris Bravo & Horacio Cocchi & Daniel Solís, 2006. "Adoption of Soil Conservation Technologies in El Salvador: A cross-Section and Over-Time Analysis," OVE Working Papers 1806, Inter-American Development Bank, Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE).
    2. Urvashi Narain & Shreekant Gupta & Klaas van ’t Veld, 2008. "Poverty and the Environment: Exploring the Relationship Between Household Incomes, Private Assets, and Natural Assets," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 84(1), pages 148-167.

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