Presenter Name : Alaa El Badri

Poverty is the point of reflective images of social differentiation and inequality, and lack of justice .

However, there is a fact that poverty is one of the reasons causing environmental degradation

Especially if the needs of the poor increased, exceeding the capacity of the available environmental resources, which does not allow them the possibility of regenerative .

-It’s a cumulative circular Or more like a process of cumulative causation

- the poor are forced to choose the guaranteed interest on short-term, So that they can fill the future needs, So they

are causing environmental degradation ,Which thus working to increase their poverty, this why the problem continues

• The world’s most disadvantaged people carry a “double burden.”

• More vulnerable to environmental degradation, they must also cope with immediate environmental threats from indoor air pollution, dirty water and unimproved sanitation

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• Most environmental degradation is caused by the non-poor as a result of their production and consumption levels

• The poor are incapable of investing in environmental improvement

• Poor people often have the technical knowledge for resource management (ITK – environmental sound agricultural practices, water harvesting techniques, use of medicinal plants)

• about 3million people, of whom 80% are children, die per year because diarrhea caused by pollution of surface water

• Over fishing and marine animals in coastal areas

• Rush towards marginal lands because of lack of resources and increase their numbers

• plowing the very steep slopes

• overgrazing in the fragile rangelands

1 - proper nutrition.

2 - protection from diseases that can be avoided medical and preventive.

3 - the ability to live in a clean environment

4 - The ability to access to enough clean water

5 - enjoy clean air does not carry pollution and disease.

6 - get enough energy for heating and cooking.

7 - Ability to use conventional treatments.

8 - the ability to use elements of the natural environment of the economic and social practices.

9 - The ability to adapt to natural shocks such as hurricanes and droughts.

10 - The ability to make free decisions about the management of available resources sustainably

• Livelihoods: Ecosystems provide goods & services (e.g. food, clean water, energy and shelter) on which poor people rely on disproportionately for their well-being, basic needs and incomes

• Resilience to environmental risks: Poor people are more vulnerable to natural disasters (e.g. flooding, drought), the effects of climate change, and environmental shocks that threaten livelihoods and food security.

• Health: Environmental conditions account for a significant portion of health risks to poor people (water, air pollution).

• Economic development: environment contributes directly and indirectly to economic development and level of employment, through sectors such as agriculture, energy, forestry, fisheries, and tourism.

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