2023-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS2023 Volume 10. Torem Intl. Symp/ Mineral Processing
| Editors: | F. Kongoli, G. N. Anastassakis, A. Abhilash, H. R. Kota, A. G. Merma, E. Souza, C.H. Sampaio, R. Souza, M.M. Vellasco, F. Zeballos, J. Sokolovic |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2023 |
| Pages: | 142 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-989820-90-2 (CD) |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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REFLECTIONS ON THE POVERTY- ENVIRONMENT DILEMMA IN AFRICA
Bienvenu Mbiye Kalumbu1;1MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, KINJSHASA, Congo;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 421
Topic: 5
Abstract:
Though the sustainable development debatediscourse for most of human history, the impetus and made it a household name in development discourses (WCED 1987). Ever since, development schemes focus on holistic development paradigm that tries to address social, economic, political, and cultural discourse is the interface between poverty, environment, and resources use. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the povertyenvironment nexus. The interface between poverty and environment has seen an endless debate in Africa. Connection between poverty and environmental degradation with contested concepts. While some scholars place the blame of unsustainable development on the poor, others also ascribe it to the noncomplex link between economic status and environment degradation. For anenhanced appreciation environmental degradation scrutinize the institutional, historical, and structural factors that influence how resources are appropriaterequires government, civil society, and cooperatattempts to establish a link between people and binaries likes poor/nonrelationships both at the local and way they do.