Environmental management and the poverty monitoring in the subjects of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The degradation of the natural world undermines efforts to eradicate poverty, scientists warn and note that the only chance for global prosperity for all countries is to recognize the fight against poverty as an environmental challenge. The most important driver for achieving environmental sustainability is the fight against poverty. It is generally accepted that poverty is a consequence of environmental degradation. On the basis of the materials from 77 constituent entities of the Russian Federation the authors determined that the provided regional action plans to achieve the national goal of halving the poverty level is not sufficient and propose the additional list of measures to achieve this goal. The authors propose the methods for calculating the target value of the poverty level indicator (the level of the population with incomes below the subsistence level and the distribution of target persons across the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.