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Merriman, Nicholas

Poverty is an important global issue, with over 1.3 billion people currently living on less than one dollar a day. Many of these people are rural poor for whom forests provide their livelihoods. This essay examines the complex definitions of poverty and inequality. It then analyses various forest utilization methods and assesses their potential for poverty alleviation. Non-timber forest products, timber, environmental services, and tourism are all examined, and poverty alleviation potential has been found for all of these methods, along with a variety of challenges. This essay finds that forests have the potential to do even more than provide livelihoods, and in some cases local forests can be used to pull people out of poverty.

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University of British Columbia. FRST 497

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0075592

Forestry, Faculty of

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