The 'Ecosystem-Pauperism' Binary. Assessments Regarding the Insurance of Environment Durability 8 Years Later from the Millennium Summit

• Author: Luminita Maria Craciun
• Position: ASE University of Bucharest
• Pages: 625-634

The “Ecosystem-Pauperism” Binary. Assessments Regarding the Insurance of

Environment Durability 8 Years Later from the Millennium Summit

Luminita Maria Craciun

ASE University of Bucharest, craciun.maria@gmail.com

Abstract: The unprecedented post-industrial development has ended up in disturbing th e bio-climatic

cycles of the planet’s ecosystem. The excessive exploitation of the nature and the increase of the waste

volume exhaust the ecosystems more quickl y than their capacity of renewal. While the urban ecosystems

(parks, green areas, running waters) ensure important services to the population (recreation, air quality),

the rural ecosystems are the ones to ensure the goods and services that are necessary to everyday life. The

incapacity for turning the ecosystems’ potential into revenues dissimulate a dysfunction at th e governing

level. The challenge consists in modifying this equatio n, facilitating a high access of poor to the local

potential of the ecosystems and their capability of t ransforming, by sustainable models the nature

productivity into incomes.

Keywords: ecosystem, pauperism, environment income, biological agriculture, limited water consumption

For approximately 1,1 billion people, whose daily living is situated at the severe pauperism status, nature

represents « the umbilical cord » – a capital for which there is little alternative for other types of material

resources. Three quarters of the pauper households of the world are located in rural areas, where drawing

products out of woods, crops, fish farms, represent the main income. The dependence of the means of

living on the natural systems is the most accurately represented by the rural poverty and it is highlighted in

the table below:

Percentage of the active workers in agriculture, fishing, wooded areas, at the global level, 2001

Table no. 1

Region / Country Active workers (%)

On the globe 44

Developed countries 7

Emerging countries 54

Asia and Pacific 60

Cambodia 70

China 67

India 59

Nepal 93

Latin America and the Caribbean 19

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