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AUTHOR
Marije Schaafsma
Poverty-environmental relationships in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
The interconnected relationships between the natural environment and human wellbeing and poverty have been a central theme in the environmental and development literatures. However, this has been less influential in mainstream international development policies, which often neglect the natural environment. This can have negative implications for the environment and for addressing poverty adequately in all its forms. Based on a literature review, stakeholder consulation workshops and secondary datasets, this paper (1) examines how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) might influence the framing of the environment-poverty relationships and (2) present the results of integrating environmen…
Human Wellbeing – Nature relationships in rural Sub-Saharan Africa – developing a protocol for the consideration of the natural environmental in multi-dimensional poverty indices
The natural environment is included in several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the first SDG of eradicating poverty. In countries like Rwanda and Malawi, despite repeated emphasis of the dependence on natural resources of the rural poor, the wellbeing-nature links have not been detailed or quantified. One step towards quantification of these links would be to integrate environmental indicators into multidimensional poverty indices. However, socially legitimacy of such indicators is a prerequisite. Building on [1], who demonstrate that in some places there is a conceptual grounding for including the environment as a constituent element in wellbeing measures, we aimed to deter…