Poverty, development, and environment

By Edward B. Barbier. Environment and Development Economics, 2010

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ABSTRACT This 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.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Community Participation and Benefits in REDD+: A Review of Initial Outcomes and Lessons (2013, background): “Barbier [12] has recently articulated a more nuanced theory of poverty-environment traps, which argues that such traps exist only where markets for land, off-farm labor, and credit are incomplete.”
The Impacts of Climate Change on the Poor in Disadvantaged Regions (2018, background): “…spatial location of populations in developing countries indicate that it is the rural poor whose livelihoods are most dependent on less-favored lands and/or lessfavored areas (CGIAR 1999; Pender and Hazell 2000; World Bank 2003, 2008; Fan and Chan-Kang 2004; CAWMA 2008; Pender 2008; Barbier 2010).”
Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis (2014, background): ““poverty trap” debate focuses on whether high environmental reliance serves as a safety net by preventing poor households from falling into deeper poverty, or whether inferior good characteristics of forest resources keep households trapped in poverty (Angelsen & Wunder, 2003; Barbier, 2010; McSween”
Climate Change Impacts on Rural Poverty in Low-Elevation Coastal Zones (2015, background): “…their dependence on exploiting marine and coastal resources, and their need for diversified sources of income, the rural coastal poor are susceptible to a poverty-environment trap that is commonly faced by rural poor households in less favored areas of developing countries (Barbier 2010 and 2012).”
Forests, Livelihoods, and Conservation: Broadening the Empirical Base (2014, background): “Resource quality and access to key markets would become key triggers for leveraging the use of common-property and open-access resources—but often at the cost of over-exploitation (Barbier, 2010).”
From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature (2020, background): “On the other hand, natural capital also often serves as a safety net after a disaster when not depleted (Barbier 2010).”