GDP of the Poor: estimates for ecosystem-service dependence

Poverty often occurs when links between ecosystem services and human well-being have been damaged or broken. Healthy ecosystems are ‘the wealth of the poor’. It has been estimated that ecosystem services and other non- marketed goods make up between 50 and 90% of the total source of livelihoods among poor rural and forest-dwelling households –…

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    GRID-Arendal
  • Year:
    17/09/2013

GDP of the Poor: estimates for ecosystem-service dependence

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