Environmental resource extraction and poverty: Comparative evidence from rural Thailand and Vietnam

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108564

Eva Seewald, Alexander Oetjen, Trung Thanh Nguyen

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Abstract

This analysis aims to: (i) identify the factors associated with environmental resource extraction using a Heckman model, (ii) examine the correlation between environmental resource extraction and poverty using an endogenous switching regression, and (iii) analyse the difference in the correlation between poverty and environmental resource extraction among household groups using unconditional quantile regression. Panel data from three survey waves of more than 10,000 rural households in 2010, 2013, and 2016 are used for the analysis. The results reveal that in both countries, a higher education level of household adults and having non-farm self-employment are associated with less environmental resource extraction, while having a larger household size and being an ethnic minority are associated with more environmental resource extraction. Switching from extraction to non-extraction is associated with a decrease in poverty. However, the effect is larger in Vietnam than in Thailand. Therefore, promoting non-farm employment and rural education is recommended in both countries. For Vietnam, developing rural road systems is also beneficial, but special attention should be paid to the disadvantageous position of ethnic minorities.

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.