Overview: Environment and the Poor: Development Strategies for a Common Agenda
Author(s)
Leonard, H. Jeffrey
Abstract
Two critical challenges have been thrust to the top of the development agenda for the 1990s: the reduction of poverty and the protection of the environment. The problems of poverty and environmental degradation are both complicated and made vastly more urgent by the relentless increases in sheer numbers of people living in developing countries. In this chapter, the author discusses the changing nature of poverty and presents a common agenda for development.
