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

Shixiong Cao; Li Chen; Qingke Zhu

doi:10.1007/s13280-010-0043-2

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3 June 2010 Remembering the Ultimate Goal of Environmental Protection: Including Protection of Impoverished Citizens in China's Environmental Policy

Shixiong Cao, Li Chen, Qingke Zhu

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AMBIO: A J. of the Human Environment, 39(6):439-442 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0043-2

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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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Shixiong Cao, Li Chen, and Qingke Zhu "Remembering the Ultimate Goal of Environmental Protection: Including Protection of Impoverished Citizens in China's Environmental Policy," AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 39(6), 439-442, (3 June 2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0043-2

Received: 13 April 2009; Accepted: 20 April 2009; Published: 3 June 2010

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