This paper examines the complex relationship that exists between poverty and natural resource degradation in developing countries. The rural poor are often concentrated in fragile, or less favorable, environmental areas. Consequently, their livelihoods can be intimately dependent on natural...

The concept of development has drawn a big debate across the globe in the past few decades as it has resulted in multi-factoral pervasive effect in the socio-political and economic realms of the people and the surrounding habitats. As the nature of development is complex and varied so is it’s...