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: Received: 20 August 2018 / Approved: 21 August 2018 / Online: 21 August 2018 (10:51:26 CEST)
How to cite:
Azhar, M.U.R.; Masood, S.; Malek, N.M.; Rehman, K. Linking Poverty and Environment as Causes of Conflict: A Case Study of Pakistan. Preprints2018, 2018080377. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0377.v1
Azhar, M.U.R.; Masood, S.; Malek, N.M.; Rehman, K. Linking Poverty and Environment as Causes of Conflict: A Case Study of Pakistan. Preprints 2018, 2018080377. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0377.v1
Azhar, M.U.R.; Masood, S.; Malek, N.M.; Rehman, K. Linking Poverty and Environment as Causes of Conflict: A Case Study of Pakistan. Preprints2018, 2018080377. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0377.v1
APA Style
Azhar, M.U.R., Masood, S., Malek, N.M., & Rehman, K. (2018). Linking Poverty and Environment as Causes of Conflict: A Case Study of Pakistan. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0377.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Azhar, M.U.R., Nor Malina Malek and Khaliqul Rehman. 2018 "Linking Poverty and Environment as Causes of Conflict: A Case Study of Pakistan" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0377.v1
Abstract
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of an International conflict, i.e. East Pakistan Crisis, 1971, and reveals that unequal development creates conflict in society. Natural resource scarcity and environmental degradation can also become a source of conflict, so marginalised and excluded people fight for their rights through non-peaceful means. This essay supports the theoretical approaches of poverty, environment, and conflict nexus and reveals that unequal development and resource scarcity deepens the poverty and creates conflicts in the society, causing harm to the environment. The degraded environment increases the poverty as environment and poverty are interlinked, and the poor have limited choices other than to degrade the environment for their survival. This vicious downward spiral link between poverty and degradation of the environment requires working extensively for poverty alleviation to reverse the environmental decline.
Keywords
Poverty and environment, poverty and conflict, conflict and development, conflict and environment, unequal development
Subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
