Poverty–Environment Nexus in the Lao PDR: Analysis of Household Survey Data

The results of the analysis of disaggregated household-level data (n=1602) from the Lao PDR in 2011 suggest that a poverty–environment nexus exists where the most explicit relations were those between poverty and using fuelwood for cooking, and poverty and access to safe drinking water, whereas recent negative changes regarding deforestation and land erosion exhibited only a weak connection.