Abstract: Understanding ecological poverty is the logical premise to discuss ecological poverty alleviation,and human dimension and ecological dimension should be established in order to grasp ecological poverty.In the relationship between man and nature,ecological poverty is manifested as the deteriorating relationship between man and nature,and it is the deterioration of human ecological relationship that leads to human poverty.Ecological poverty means that human being cannot get the necessary survival and development resources from nature because of ecological factor.Ecological poverty is mainly divided into four types,namely environmental degradation,natural disasters,fragile capacity and behavioral consequences.Ecological poverty alleviation is to eliminate ecological poverty.

Key words: ecological relationship, ecological poverty, types of poverty, ecological poverty alleviation