Marginality Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: von Braun, Joachim (Editor), Gatzweiler, Franz W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Social policy.; Environmental economics.; Environment, general.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Environmental Economics.; Social Policy.

This volume presents new insights on marginality, i.e. the situation of people living on the edge of socio-economic and ecological systems. The marginality concept leads to different development policies. While the prevalence of poverty declined by about 50 percent in the past two decades, any furth...