This paper reviews what insights environmental and ecological economics have provided regarding the 'poverty-environment'- nexus within the 'EnvironmentDevelopment'-system. Various perspectives are discussed, such as 'the poor as agents' and 'the poor as victims' hypotheses, (a) institutions oriente
In what could perhaps be referred to as the postmodernist mother of fiction - the novel 'Haroun and the sea of stories' - Salman Rushdie at one point puts his main character Haroun in a mail coach driven by a Mr Butt, on a rocky, windy, slippery road high up in the mountains, trying to reach a certa
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