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Showing 1 to 20 of 793 for “"Livelihoods"”.
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Mangroves, fisheries and community livelihoods
… need to respond to pressures on mangrove-fishery livelihoods from global environmental change.
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Three Essays On Conflict, Insecurity, And Livelihoods
Despite Economics increasing interest in the effects of conflict, our empirical knowledge has lagged behind. Recent studies have highlighted important and varied long run costs to conflict. Due to a lack of research on how households adapt to conflict and insecurity, however, we have little …
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Land tenure and sustainable livelihoods in north-east Ghana
… land management and the provision of sustainable livelihoods in north-east Ghana in particular, and sub-Saharan Africa generally. The study has contributed to an understanding of the political ecology of north-east Ghana and concludes that the emerging changes in land resource access and use have …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
… interventions to negotiate their land claims and livelihoods, and how these negotiations in turn shape their lives and relationships to land. I employ the lens of "bricolage" as the analytical framework to understand these diverse strategies and practices. Bricolage is a process whereby people …
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Reclaiming Indigenous Land and Livelihoods in North-East Cambodia
… interventions to negotiate their land claims and livelihoods, and how these negotiations in turn shape their lives and relationships to land. I employ the lens of "bricolage" as the analytical framework to understand these diverse strategies and practices. Bricolage is a process whereby people …
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The experiences and livelihoods of unemployed graduates in Windhoek, Namibia
The experiences and livelihoods of unemployed graduates in Windhoek, Namibia. Graduate unemployment is a global phenomenon and is not only known to the nation of Namibia. There have been numerous research conducted on graduate unemployment worldwide but less research has been conducted on graduate …
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Accounting for Sustainable Livelihoods: The dialectic between Fairtrade and Biodiversity
… biodiversity in providing sustainable livelihoods. Further, studies about Fairtrade’s accountability have focused on the household when there is a need to investigate the accountability of Fairtrade at the co-operative level since the Fairtrade system mostly works with co-operatives of …
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Landscape, Livelihoods and Risk: Community Vulnerability to Landslides in Nepal
… and its underlying causes. Firstly, a bottom up livelihoods based approach is adopted to examine the following research questions: (1) Who is vulnerable to landslide hazard?; (2) Why do people occupy landslide prone areas?; and (3) How do ‘at risk’ rural communities perceive and respond to …
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Unruly landscapes: politics of biodiversity, energy and livelihoods in India
… to natural resources can pose a threat to local livelihoods that depend on nature. For projects located next to areas of conservation concern, it necessitates a political process of prioritization between conservation, development and livelihoods. In this dissertation, I focus on the re-working …
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Ilng'wesi Maasai: Livelihoods and Moral Identity in Northern Laikipia, Kenya
… studies on material and technical practices and livelihoods with a close examination of emic processes of meaning-making, moral understanding and identity formation. In particular, it explores how Ilng’wesi themselves link their identities with livelihood practices, and how a close identification …
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Sustainable livelihoods approach and community development in practice in engineering organisations
… organisation for the use of the sustainable livelihoods approach in a community development scenario. The sustainable livelihoods approach is a relatively new approach developed to address the failure of previous approaches to community development. Its key focuses are holistic, …
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Water supply and urban livelihoods: A case study in Semarang-Indonesia
Contains fulltext : 111953.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Climate-related risks and coastal livelihoods: lived realities, gender and adaptation
… presented by a changing climate onto their livelihoods. This research examines the nexuses between natural resource dependency, livelihoods and gender within the broader socio-economic and political landscape of South Africa. A qualitative research design was employed, particularly a case …
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Conservation, Consumption, and Livelihoods: Contradictions in Conservation Projects and Audiences in Vietnam
This thesis explores the relationships between conservation organisations and consumers of wild animal products in Vietnam. Using semi-structured interviews across social worlds, this thesis shows the changing ways people relate to conservation projects and wild animal products. I argue that …
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Relationships between transport, mobility, sustainable livelihoods and social capital for poverty reduction
… relationships between accessibility, sustainable livelihoods and social capital, and their role in alleviating poverty by reducing the vulnerability of isolated people. Isolation and inaccessibility to basic needs and services are a cause and symptom of rural poverty. Transport (including …
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Implications of Climate Change for the Livelihoods of Urban Dwellers in Kiribati
… with climate change and its impacts on the livelihoods of urban dwellers of Kiribati. The focus is on the country’s two main urban areas: South Tarawa in the Gilbert group and Kiritimati in the Line group. The study assesses the dependence of urban dwellers on their urban environment as well …
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Climate variability and its implication for water resources and livelihoods in Uganda
… aspect in water resources management and livelihoods formation, an attempt to explain how the interaction impacts on the two is made in the context of climate variability and change. The assumption is that climate change/variability has had an effect on water resources management and the …
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