A relationship between poverty and deforestation as a proxy of environmental degradation

• Main Authors: Bernardo, John Gilbert S., Calaquian, Jose Carlo V., Salazar, Kristine May Ancel S., Young, Charles Stevenson V.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Poverty; Deforestation; Environmental degradation; Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14340
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper analyzes the relationship existing between poverty and environment with deforestation serving as a proxy for the environment. The two way relationship existing between poverty and environment is subject to recent debates. Linkages between the two are said to be country specific and geogra...