Study On China Rural Population, Poverty And Environmental Degradation

This article discusses the relation of Population, Poverty and Pollution. It is the basic question in the study of Population, Resources and Environmental Economics.For almost every country today, its primary struggle centers on globalization issues—growth, poverty eradication, disease prevention, education, urbanization, the preservation of identity. Poverty influences population health because it largely determines an individual's environmental risks, as well as access to resources to deal with those risks.Throughout the developing world, the greatest environmental health threats tend to be those closest to home. Many in these countries live in situations that imperil their health through steady exposure to biological pathogens in the immediate environment.In China, the poorest are often excluded from the benefits of emerging prosperity and may also face a disproportionate share of health risks related to economic growth. Rural farmers are exposed to higher levels of air pollution or to the risks of industrial accidents. The chief victims of the accident were not just workers but farmers who had settled near the pollution.Even in wealthier districts where environmental threats to the general population may be relatively small, they are likely to be greater for poor and minority populations. The distribution of pollution in the China is grossly unequal, for instance, with poor, minority, inner-city children bearing much higher burdens of exposure and effects. I summarize the theory on the circular influence of Population, Poverty and Environment, compare the optimism and pessimism. According to the developed countries' experience, analyze China rural PPE. And then forecast the tendency of China rural PPE.The first section in this dissertation is theory. First introduce the concept of Population, Poverty and Environment. Thirdly discuss the theory from three parts.Secondly analyze the research background of PPE. The third section analyses China rural PPE. First research the population from quantity/quality/structure. Then analyze the poverty's actuality and cause of formation, especially the relation of poverty population and degradation of environment. At last analyze the environmental degradation's reality and cause. And the I analyzes the relation of floating population's growth and poverty and environmental degradation according to the tendency of urbanization.The last section is conclusion. In this section I put forward countermeasure to resolute the Population Poverty Environmental Degradation. The first one is on Population, promoting the quality becomes the most important method to resolve the Trilemma. There are four countermeasures on Poverty. On rural environmental degradation, we should develop high-tech agriculture, etc.