Poorer Countries and the Environment: Friends or Foes?
基于萨尔瓦多和哥斯达黎加的田野调查，本文分析了较贫穷国家政府保护环境的条件，涉及公民社会、私营部门和公共部门三个因素，对理解发展中国家环境政策制定有参考价值。
This article focuses on delineating the conditions under which the governments of poorer countries become active defenders and protectors of the environment. It does so based on field work in two poorer countries, El Salvador and Costa Rica, where the governments have instituted moratoria on financially lucrative but environmentally destructive mining in order to protect the environment. Building on these case studies and prior work, the article posits three conditions—related to civil society, the private sector, and the public sector—under which governments of poorer countries implement policies that favor environmental ends over shorter term economic rewards.