How can research help address the vicious circle of environmental change, resource scarcity, poverty, and poor health?
Posted on July 15th, 2009 Submitted by Chris Categorized as Human Health, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as 16 The Brundtland Report (WCED 1987, 27) stated “[m]any parts of the world are caught in a vicious downward spiral: poor people are forced to overuse environmental resources to survive from day to day, and their impoverishment of their environment further impoverishes them, making their survival ever more uncertain and difficult.” This statement and other aspects of the report have been debated for 20 years. The question, posed slightly differently here, remains one of the fundamental unsolved challenges for human-environment relations. 3 comments on this post. Belouve July 19th, 2009 at 11:12 I think we will have very important technological developments which will solve the world global energy security problem : electric vehicles as soon as 2011 (Renault and many others, super-condensers using nanotechnologies, electricity from deep high energy geothermal power (ex: Soultz en
