Globalized Poverty and Environment 21st Century Challenges and Innovative Solutions /

• Main Authors: Agola, Nathaniel O. (Author), Awange, Joseph L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental management.; Public finance.; Economic policy.; Development economics.; Sociology.; Environmental Management.; Development Economics.; Public Economics.; Economic Policy.; Sociology, general.

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 revi...

Table of Contents:

• 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.