Natural resource degradation effects of poverty and population growth are largely policy-induced: the case of Colombia

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Heath ◽  
Hans Binswanger
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Population Pressure ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACTThe sustainability of natural resource use is influenced by population pressure, but this exercises a much less critical impact than the overall policy framework. In Colombia, various agricultural and other policies whose effect is to constrain the poor's access to land encourage environmental degradation. A case is made in favour of the new land reform process that Colombia is launching.

scholarly journals Poverty, development, and environment

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 635-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD B. BARBIER
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Environment Model ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Development And Environment ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the complex relationship that exists between poverty and natural resource degradation in developing countries. The rural poor are often concentrated in fragile, or less favorable, environmental areas. Consequently, their livelihoods can be intimately dependent on natural resource use and ecosystem services. The relationship between poverty and natural resource degradation may depend on a complex range of choices and tradeoffs available to the poor, which in the absence of capital, labor, and land markets, is affected by their access to outside employment and any natural resource endowments. The paper develops a poverty–environment model to characterize some of these linkages, and concludes by discussing policy implications and avenues for further research.

scholarly journals Assessing Natural Resource Use by Forest-Reliant Communities in Madagascar Using Functional Diversity and Functional Redundancy Metrics

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. e24107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry A. Brown ◽  
Dan F. B. Flynn ◽  
Nicola K. Abram ◽  
J. Carter Ingram ◽  
Steig E. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Functional Redundancy ◽  
Natural Resource Use

scholarly journals Waste Management at the End of the Stone Age

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Filip Havlíček ◽  
Martin Kuča
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Lower Palaeolithic

AbstractThis article describes examples of waste management systems from archaeological sites in Europe and the Middle East. These examples are then contextualized in the broader perspectives of environmental history. We can confidently claim that the natural resource use of societies predating the Lower Palaeolithic was in equilibrium with the environment. In sharp contrast stand communities from the Upper Palaeolithic and onwards, when agriculture appeared and provided opportunities for what seemed like unlimited expansion.

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