Blaming the victims: The poverty-environment nexus: Policy implications and grassroots alternative for sub-Saharan Africa

• Main Author: Malabed, Rizalino N.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2001
• Subjects: Poverty—Africa, Sub-Saharan; Poverty—Prevention—Africa, Sub-Saharan; Environmental protection—Africa, Sub-Saharan; Community development—Africa, Sub-Saharan; Economic Policy; Environmental Policy; Sociology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7990
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper investigates the concept of poverty-environment nexus and explores its policy implications within the context of sub-Saharan Africa. The research points out the lack of consensus on the existence of an exogenous poverty-environmental degradation causal relation. The environmental degradat...