GGR345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dengue Fever, Environmental Health, Filariasis
Document Summary
The links between poverty and the environment in urban areas of africa, asian, and latin america. This article suggests that there is little evidence of urban poverty being a significant contributor to environmental degradation but strong evidence that urban environmental hazards are major contributors to urban poverty. This shows how environmental degradation is more associated with the consumption patterns of middle and upper-income groups and the failure of governments to implement effective environmental policies than with urban poverty. The article also highlights how good governance is at the core of poverty reduction and how meeting the environmental health needs of poorer groups need not imply greater environmental degradation. The trend is toward increasingly urbanized societies in most countries as most new investment is urban based. Africa, asia, and latin america also have nearly three-quarters of the world"s urban population and most of the world"s largest and fastest-growing cities.
