Implications of poverty traps across levels
dc.contributor.author | Radosavljevic, Sonja | |
dc.contributor.author | Haider, L. Jamila | |
dc.contributor.author | Lade, Steven | |
dc.contributor.author | Schlüter, Maja | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-27T22:02:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-27T22:02:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.date.updated | 2021-11-28T07:25:17Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent research has demonstrated the multidimensional nature of poverty and the multi-level organization of social-ecological systems that display poverty traps. The traps on these different levels can reinforce each other, and therefore multi-level traps pose particular challenges for poverty alleviation. Yet, poverty trap models rarely consider more than one level of organization and only a few attributes of the system at each level. These limitations constrain our understanding of the mechanisms that generate poverty traps and may hinder or even mislead development efforts. Here, we present a series of two-level dynamical system models of poverty traps and use these models to investigate the combined influences of biophysical and economic factors, farmers’ habits and community decisions on creating and alleviating persistent poverty. Our results indicate that neglecting key interactions can lead to incorrect assessments and potentially inadequate alleviation strategies. Moreover, we obtain necessary conditions for the existence of fractal poverty traps, and show that (i) cross-level interactions can open possibilities for escaping from poverty, (ii) that farmers’ behavioral changes may create or impede a way out of poverty, and (iii) that the effectiveness of development interventions depends on the combined influences of biophysical and economic dynamics, farmers’ behavior and community spending on agricultural and social activities. | en_AU |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research leading to these results received funding from the Sida-funded GRAID program at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 682472 – MUSES), the Swedish Research Council Formas (project grant 2014-589), and the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsr?det (project grant 2018-06732). | en_AU |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 0305-750X | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/276229 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.provenance | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd | en_AU |
dc.rights | © 2021 The authors | en_AU |
dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution licence | en_AU |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_AU |
dc.source | World Development | en_AU |
dc.subject | poverty trap | en_AU |
dc.subject | Multilevel agro-ecological system | en_AU |
dc.subject | Cross-level interactions | en_AU |
dc.subject | Dynamical systems model | en_AU |
dc.subject | Bistability | en_AU |
dc.title | Implications of poverty traps across levels | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Radosavljevic, Sonja, Stockholm University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Haider, L. Jamila, Stockholm University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Lade, Steven, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Schlüter , Maja, Stockholm University | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | u4370033@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Lade, Steven, u4370033 | en_AU |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 410400 - Environmental management | en_AU |
local.identifier.absseo | 280111 - Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a383154xPUB18931 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 144 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105437 | en_AU |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85103935509 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | a383154 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | https://www.sciencedirect.com/ | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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