Essays about: "economic causes of environmental degradation"

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1. 1. Hints of Sustainable Development in the Philippines: Genuine Savings 1902-2018

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Mary Lerma Ann Limjoco; [2021]
   Keywords : Economic History; Environment; Development; Green Growth; Sustainability; Genuine Savings; Adjusted Net Savings; Philippines; Sustainable Development; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The Philippines is one of the most affected countries by climate change. Income levels do not say much about its national wealth as it leaves out depreciation and excludes other necessary types of capital but are still mainly used to report a country’s economic standing regardless of its sustainability. READ MORE

3. 2. Magic, Money, and Mu(shrooms): On the Psychedelic Industry, Environmental Crisis, and Indigenous Territories

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Ellen Julia Amanda Månsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Keywords: Human Ecology; Psychedelics; Environmental Crisis; Human-Nature Connectedness; Capitalism; Indigenous Knowledges; Ecopsychology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : As the environmental crisis intensifies humans are searching in many corners of the world for solutions and actions to take on both a political, economic, and social level. In recent years, psychedelics have been brought forward in Western academia as a potential way of (re-)connecting humans with nature and foster pro-environmental behaviour. READ MORE

4. 3. Burning the woods and flooding the slums : examining the socio-economic and environmental burden of wood charcoal in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Laura Maja Stenbæk Fløytrup; [2020]
   Keywords : Cooking fuels; Energy Justice; Supply chains; Good Governance; Sub-Saharan Africa; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Wood charcoal is the main source of energy for cooking in urban Sub-Saharan Africa. It is widely known that charcoal production causes numerous environmental impacts, such as deforestation and environmental degradation. READ MORE

5. 4. One island, two worlds: A comparative political ecology of deforestation disparity causes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Milla Marzelius; [2020]
   Keywords : Political ecology; deforestation; dynamic case-study approach; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Hispaniola; soil degradation; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : On the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, two countries share the same environmental and climatic pre-conditions, but show monumental differences in current forest-cover. While tropical forests are covering almost half of the Dominican Republic, Haiti is down to just a few percent. READ MORE

6. 5. Disaggregating economic inequality from space

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Neija Maegaard Elvekjær; [2019]
   Keywords : Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite VIIRS ; night-time lights; Gross Domestic Product GDP ; economic inequality; regional inequality; spatial inequality; Gini coefficient; spatial scale; Social Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Reducing inequality is number 10 of the United Nations sustainable development goals. Inequality in society affect economic growth, development and poverty reduction, and through these indirectly affect environmental degradation, food security and other major problems facing society today. READ MORE