| Autor: |
Rogge, Mary E., Darkwa, Osei K. |
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International Social Work; Oct96, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p395-409, 15p |
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The article focuses on the type and source of poverty, the plight of exploited people in exploited nations, reviews environmental problems facing the poor in developing nations by examining how the international trade in toxic waste has aggravated their living conditions, and at last suggests strategies for social workers to intervene in the relationship between poverty and the environment. The analysis progresses with the proposition that fate of the poor and the environment are inextricably linked. In spite of their symbiotic relations with the environment, poor people in the developing world are confronted with a growing number of environmental challenges and problems. Diminishing natural resources, rapid population growth and lack of power and economic alternatives have pushed poor people to marginal lands where they overgraze fragile lands, plow steep slopes and raze plots in the rainforest trade of toxic waste. As the concluding remark the article opines that regardless of how the interdependence is manifest, international, national and local commitments to change are essential to decrease the disproportionate risk of environmental problems for poor people. |
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Complementary Index |
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