Globalized Poverty and Environment : 21st Century Challenges and Innovative Solutions. 1st ed. 2014

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by Nathaniel O. Agola, Joseph L. Awange

出版情報:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014

著者名:

• Agola, Nathaniel O.
• Awange, Joseph L.
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ISBN:

9783642397332 [3642397336]    

注記:

Poverty and Environmental Link -- Theoretical Framework for analyzing Poverty -- Economic Theories of Poverty and Poverty Eradication -- Traditional Measures of Poverty Lines -- Recent Developments -- The Human Development Perspective.-Emerging Conceptual Issues and Rural Urban Dichotomy -- New Conceptual Issues in the Measurement of Poverty and the Dichotomy of Urban and Rural Poverty -- Poverty and Income Inequality – Global Perspective -- Review of Global Poverty Eradication Solutions -- Environmental Disaster-poverty Link -- Degradation of Natural Resources -- Water, an Environmental-Agricultural Link -- Environmental Pollution in Relation to Poverty -- Impact Assessments in support of Poverty Alleviation.
This book reviews the key conceptions and economic theories of poverty, explains poverty-environment nexus, and finally offers innovative socio-economic and scientific geospatial solutions for the 21st Century.  The book makes it possible for our readers to understand poverty thorough a concise review of the major theoretical economic frameworks, measures of poverty, and points out the need to understand rural-urban dichotomy of poverty. We find the theories and measures to be less-than perfect and therefore point out the need to treat these measures and theories as convenient tools lacking perfect accuracy and utmost scientific reliability. It follows then that the supposedly knowledgeably crafted poverty reduction and environmental preservation solutions are inherently imperfect.  The economic solutions proposed in this book transcend extant humdrum macroeconomic and policy measures targeting poverty and environmental issues. We point to a new paradigm in which private sector and other stakeholders can crea

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