Cover Image

Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Poverty is a major cause and effect of global environmental problems. Poverty is indeed multidimensional, and the inter-linkage between environment and poverty can hardly be over emphasised. The eradication of poverty is a major development challenge. Rapid economic growth can contribute much to pov...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Md. Jahan Boksh Moral,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2010
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/591/1/1.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/591/
http://www.ukm.my/~penerbit/akademika
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my-ukm.journal.591
record_format eprints
spelling my-ukm.journal.5912011-08-11T07:10:47Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/591/ Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh Md. Jahan Boksh Moral, Poverty is a major cause and effect of global environmental problems. Poverty is indeed multidimensional, and the inter-linkage between environment and poverty can hardly be over emphasised. The eradication of poverty is a major development challenge. Rapid economic growth can contribute much to poverty eradication. However, fast-paced economic growth is often accompanied by adverse environmental effects. The correlation between the state of poverty and environment has been widely known, however quantitative correlation between these two is rarely undertaken. The principal objective of this study is to understand the relationship between poverty and local environmental degradation through a general model. The study is undertaken by acquiring primary data from the field survey employing a structured questionnaire and gathering information on poverty and environment nexus with emphasis on poverty and environmental degradation. Rajshahi City of Bangladesh is selected through purposive sampling as the study area in 2004. Two underserved communities of the city were explored in the study. The investigated communities named as Ramchandra Pur Shamprasharito and Bustu Hara were selected through the same sampling method. Through the stratified random sampling 50 and 100 families out of the entire 100 and 300 families respectively were chosen from the communities with significant level at 0.05. Attempt is made to correlate perceived condition of the environment by local people and environment-related variables. The result shows that environment condition and poverty is highly correlated. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2010-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/591/1/1.pdf Md. Jahan Boksh Moral, (2010) Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh. AKADEMIKA, 79 . pp. 117-125. ISSN 0126-5008 http://www.ukm.my/~penerbit/akademika
institution Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
building Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
content_source UKM Journal Article Repository
url_provider http://journalarticle.ukm.my/
language English
description Poverty is a major cause and effect of global environmental problems. Poverty is indeed multidimensional, and the inter-linkage between environment and poverty can hardly be over emphasised. The eradication of poverty is a major development challenge. Rapid economic growth can contribute much to poverty eradication. However, fast-paced economic growth is often accompanied by adverse environmental effects. The correlation between the state of poverty and environment has been widely known, however quantitative correlation between these two is rarely undertaken. The principal objective of this study is to understand the relationship between poverty and local environmental degradation through a general model. The study is undertaken by acquiring primary data from the field survey employing a structured questionnaire and gathering information on poverty and environment nexus with emphasis on poverty and environmental degradation. Rajshahi City of Bangladesh is selected through purposive sampling as the study area in 2004. Two underserved communities of the city were explored in the study. The investigated communities named as Ramchandra Pur Shamprasharito and Bustu Hara were selected through the same sampling method. Through the stratified random sampling 50 and 100 families out of the entire 100 and 300 families respectively were chosen from the communities with significant level at 0.05. Attempt is made to correlate perceived condition of the environment by local people and environment-related variables. The result shows that environment condition and poverty is highly correlated.
format Article
author Md. Jahan Boksh Moral,
spellingShingle Md. Jahan Boksh Moral,
Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
author_facet Md. Jahan Boksh Moral,
author_sort Md. Jahan Boksh Moral,
title Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
title_short Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
title_full Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
title_fullStr Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh
title_sort model of correlation between perceived local environment and urban poverty: an evidence from rajshahi city, bangladesh
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2010
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/591/1/1.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/591/
http://www.ukm.my/~penerbit/akademika
_version_ 1643734769047961600
score 13.211869

Similar Items