Remembering the Ultimate Goal of Environmental Protection: Including Protection of Impoverished Citizens in China's Environmental Policy

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Journal Ambio

Date 2010 Nov 9

PMID 21053727

Citations 2

Authors

Shixiong Cao

Li Chen

Qingke Zhu

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Abstract

The life of impoverished people can be damaged by adverse environmental conditions, but these people can also be harmed by environmental conservation programs, particularly when the guiding policy ignores their needs. To improve the social and economic effectiveness of environmental protection, governments must understand that the ultimate goal of environmental protection is to improve human livelihoods, not just restore vegetation. The elimination of poverty by the development of sustainable, long-term enterprises is a precondition for successful ecological restoration.

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