Resources for "Poverty and the Environment"

Here are many articles pertaining to sustainable development, particularly slash-and-burn agriculture and deforestation.

"Finding Balance: Forests and Family Planning in Madagascar"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAl8bJ-3MSU

ENVIRONMENT-POVERTY CONNECTIONS IN TROPICAL DEFORESTATION
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVERTY/Resources/WDR/stiglitz/Chomitz.pdf

Poverty, Environment, and Sustainable Development: A Thematic Bibliography
http://www.sandeeonline.org/publications/bibliographies/pdf/poverty_environment.pdf

Excerpt from Conway's article "The doubly green revolution: balancing food, poverty and environmental needs in the 21st century"
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=XT10X4KweFoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA17&dq=conway+doubly+green+revolution&ots=sczcaYOLqR&sig=554HbOEfWizxZM8sz8Nb8Or-zBQ#PPA33,M1

Food for All in the 21st Century, Gordon Conway
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=17&sid=cde448e7-a901-47c4-be11-3b74043d06cc%40SRCSM2#AN0002655295-4

Poverty, policies, and deforestation: The case of Mexico
http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/prdhome/peg/wps05/mexico.pdf

Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: Distinguishing Behavior from Location
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/007/ae401e/ae401e00.pdf

Rethinking the causes of deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models
http://wbro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/1/73.pdf

Deforestation in Cameroon, and Poverty in the Rural Zone
http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2004-GPRaHDiA/papers/2p-Gbetnkom-CSAE2004.pdf

Land use intensification potential in slash-and-burn farming through improvements in technical efficiency
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VDY-4FC3S0D-1&_user=650606&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000035099&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=650606&md5=18c36c005ed1bccb7d5a7eb7c0dcca8c