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Biological Conservation and Global Poverty
Author(s) -
Fuentes Marcelino
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
biotropica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.813
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1744-7429
pISSN - 0006-3606
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00396.x
Subject(s) - poverty , citation , latin americans , globalization , biodiversity , library science , sociology , political science , geography , ecology , computer science , law , biology
THE LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY AND WILD HABITATS AFFECTS US ALL ,b ut most immediately the world’s poor who depend to a large degree on wildlife for basic goods such as food, shelter, and medicines. Given this link between poverty and biological resources, an important question in deciding conservation strategies is how much conservation can help the world’s poor (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005, United Nations Development Programme et al. 2005,