Where is the Poverty–Environment Nexus? Evidence from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam

Dasgupta, Susmita; Deichmann, Uwe; Meisner, Craig; Wheeler, David

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.10.003

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“…Similar to other developing countries, one of the main environmental and development concerns in Cambodia is to avoid environmental degradation induced livelihood stresses for the rural population due to the overexploitation of environmental resources (Dasgupta et al, 2005;Clements et al, 2010).…”

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Rural livelihoods and environmental resource dependence in Cambodia

Nguyen

Lam

Bühler

et al. 2015

Ecological Economics

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Understanding rural livelihood strategies and environmental resource dependence can help to reduce and prevent livelihood stresses induced by environmental resource degradation. This study identifies livelihood strategies of farm households in rural Cambodia and explores their determinants with a focus on environmental resource dependence. The data are derived from a survey of 580 households in 30 villages of Stung Treng province in Cambodia undertaken in 2013. An activity-based two-step cluster analysis is conducted to identify different livelihood clusters and regression models are performed to determine the major factors affecting the choice of livelihood strategies and the dependence on environmental resources. The results demonstrate how different levels of environmental and household capital influence livelihood strategies. Environmental resources contribute a significant portion of household income (27%) and act as a means to reduce income inequality (7%) among households. The absolute environmental income is positively correlated with the total income but the relative environmental income decreases with an increase in total income. Thus, it appears that low income households are not to be blamed for environmental degradation, because they are unable to undertake activities with high return. The findings of this study suggest that promoting off-farm employment, education and social networking reduces the extraction of environmental resources.

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Rural livelihoods and environmental resource dependence in Cambodia

Nguyen

Lam

Bühler

et al. 2015

Ecological Economics

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“…With the growing number of tourists, the rural tourism resources would bear an increasing pressure without a scientific and rational management policy in place [3]. This should be especially emphasized for impoverished destinations, because there is an overlap between unsustainably environmental actions and poverty [59]. In order to protect the environment, the village should make policies and decisions for further development from a future-oriented vision instead of a money driven mind-set [1].…”

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Innovating Rural Tourism Targeting Poverty Alleviation through a Multi-Industries Integration Network: the Case of Zhuanshui Village, Anhui Province, China

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Abstract:For an impoverished area to employ rural tourism (RT) as an avenue of poverty alleviation, there are two main challenges: building competitiveness with a very limited endowed resource base, and targeting the poor who generally lack financial capital or key capabilities as the main beneficiaries. With a case of Zhuanshui in China, an impoverished village without prominent tourism resource endowment, this paper has shown that the two challenges can be met through an innovation to construct a multi-industries integration network. This paper explores the development of the network, examines its characteristics, and analyzes its operation mechanisms. Results indicate that (1) the common objective of poverty alleviation and the same fundamental resource, combine RT and its extension industries tightly into an integration network; (2) sufficient evidence has been found for the embeddedness, endogeneity and empowerment of the network, but for empowerment, the poor's participation is just the first stage to make appropriate decisions about the development due to their inadequate capabilities; and (3) vision developing, demonstration driving and centralized decentralization governance are three vital operational mechanisms to encourage the participation and collaboration of stakeholders. We also discussed the possible challenges for sustainability, being replicability of established competitive advantages, temporality of the major leader, and potential environmental degradation.

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“…This is due partly to the perception among practitioners that it is diffi cult to integrate these objectives consistently, as well as some skepticism within the environmental community of the application of an ecosystem services-based approach to conservation (Tallis et al 2009 ). Furthermore the availability of robust empirical studies on the nexus between poverty and the environment is limited, particularly due to diffi culties in obtaining relevant data from developing countries (Dasgupta et al 2005 ).…”

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The Marginal Poor and Their Dependence on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Kumar

Yashiro

2013

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In this chapter the authors employ a meta-study to explore why it is critical to address the degradation of ecosystems for poverty alleviation, especially in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors also investigate the linkages between ecosystem services and aspects of extreme poverty. Their fi ndings suggest that the poor are often more vulnerable to the loss of ecosystem function that restricts the supply of natural goods and services. The poor depend upon ecosystem services, but the nature of this dependence is necessarily not uniform throughout the year. The poor also tend to benefi t less from environmental conservation efforts than those who are not poor. The dynamic patterns of dependence on ecosystem services of the poor and their coping strategies require regionally specifi c and in-depth evaluation.

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Where is the Poverty–Environment Nexus? Evidence from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam

Cited by 199 publications

References 19 publications

Rural livelihoods and environmental resource dependence in Cambodia

Rural livelihoods and environmental resource dependence in Cambodia

Innovating Rural Tourism Targeting Poverty Alleviation through a Multi-Industries Integration Network: the Case of Zhuanshui Village, Anhui Province, China

The Marginal Poor and Their Dependence on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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