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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;
    PAPER: 421/Mineral/Regular (Oral) OS
    SCHEDULED: 12:45/Fri. 1 Dec. 2023/Sunflower



    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.

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