The Role of Rural Poverty on Sustainable Development (Destroying the Environment: Pasture) Case Study: Poshteab District of the Township of Zabol

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Zahra  Sharifinia ¹ (ندارد)
Rahim  Moshiri ² (ندارد)
Afshar  Alihosseini ³ (ندارد)

Received: 2014-11-29 Accepted : 2014-11-29 Published : 2010-07-23

Keywords: Poverty, Economic rural poverty, Social rural poverty, Destruction of environment, Pasture,

Abstract :

In the present article the aim is considering the role of economic rural poverty in destruction of environment in the surveyed pastures of poshtab district in zabol township.the research method is applied based on objective. And data collected via library and field method. For this reason the effection of both direct and indirect function of human on environment(pasture)  destruction resulted from rural exploiters' social and economic poverty have been considered. The factors such as : low average of per capita income of rural families ,low pasture's output and non availability of job opportunities are economic poverty factors of rural exploiters; and the low literacy level of rural family and high number of family are social poverty factors of rural exploiters. The results of research show that villager's social and economic poverty cause to environment (pasture) destruction with direct function of human) cutting shrubs to secure fuel, sale and creating pen), and indirect function of human (keeping livestock more than capacity of pasture).