... quality of life" (El-Hinnawi, 1985). Many demographers criticized this definition as being too broad, though the criticisms implied less of a problem with the concept itself than a difficulty in isolating the environmental dimension from the social and economic conditions with which causal factors are interlinked. In 1994, Astri Surkhe argued that environmental "push" factors ... between poverty and environmental outcomes necessitates investigating issues such as resource access (e.g. assets, land, labour, credit, markets), institutions (e.g. land tenure systems, governance) and vulnerabi...

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