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On biodiversity conservation and poverty traps

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: This paper introduces a special feature on biodiversity conservation and poverty traps. We define and explain the core concepts and then identify four distinct classes of mechanisms that define important interlinkages between biodiversity and poverty. The multiplicity of candidate mechanisms underscores a major challenge in designing policy appropriate across settings. This framework is then used to introduce the ensuing set of papers, which empirically explore these various mechanisms linking poverty traps and biodiversity conservation.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011521108

Authors: Christopher B. Barrett, Alexander J. Travis, Partha Dasgupta

Institutions: Cornell University, New York State College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, University of Cambridge

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2080240657

FWCI: 12.21

Cites: 38

Cited by: 340

Related to: 10