This article pioneers an asset-by-asset point index, which represents a simple methodology that uses inputs rather than outputs of well-being to recognise the 'poor' on a point basis, household by household. It focuses on assets, which are a significant aspect of well-being in whose absence...

Although poverty lines have been constructed on the basis of an income threshold, this article defines a poverty line on the basis of an asset threshold using the consensual approach as postulated by Mack and Lansley. In this article, an asset threshold is defined using this approach, which is a...

The discourse on “environmental conservation” is highly dynamic and has generated controversies of epic proportions in conservation sciences and environmental anthropology. Given the nebulous nature of conservation, coupled with the varying interpretations evoked by the deployment of the...