This study analyzed the relationship between poverty and environmental quality in the Niger Delta Region. It focuses on determining how population growth has affected forest and non-forest resource exploitation in the Niger Delta Region; establishing the relationship between poverty and the source of domestic energy consumption; establishing the relationship between poverty, biomass or wood energy demand and environmental quality; determining the rural and urban dimensions of the observed relationships and any conflicts that could arise or have arisen there from; and outlining the major policy challenges.
