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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"bottom-up development"”.
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Challenges to Implementing Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) as a Bottom up Development Approach in the Sinharaja Rain Forest (Sri Lanka)
… been an important component for many regional development strategies. This thesis argues that CBET originated as a Western concept, and there are many successful CBET projects. However, CBET operates within geo-political, economic and cultural contexts, which generate challenges for its …
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Technological change & the changing nature of grassroots development organizations : the case of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Grassroots development organizations (GDOs) are defined by their hybrid identity as part social movement and part NGO. In the last decade, they have received renewed attention from the international development community due to their unique governance structure that, unlike their traditional NGO …
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Formation and Development of Diabatic Rossby Vortices in a 10-Year Climatology
… forms and grows in the absence of discernible upper tropospheric forcing. The overarching goal of this work is to expand on the limited amount of DRV research by examining the general characteristics of real-world DRVs that have been identified in an automated 10-year DRV climatology. The …
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A study of local economic development in the town of Stutterheim
Local economic development (LED) is progressively being implemented by developing countries and has shifted from being a development approach pursued only by industrialised nations. Academic interpretation of LED prioritises strategies based on ideas of grassroots and bottom-up development. These …
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To defend ourselves: common property management of forests in northern Thailand
… in the view of planning for forest areas occupied and used by indigenous people. It is being recognized as important to integrate customary law, such as common property rights to forest lands, into the framework of national policy. However, while this is being recognized on a theoretical …
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Working practices, problems and needs of the community development projects in Punjab Province, Pakistan
Community development programmes have been initiated to tackle the shared problems of local communities. The nature, volume and tenure of the development programmes depend on the felt needs and available resources. Different nations initiate community development programmes at different times. …
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Production of Compositional Analogues of Bone Based on Electrophoretically Deposited Mineralised Collagen Films
… to fabricate mineralised collagen films using a “bottom-up” development approach, starting with the optimisation of OCP synthesis, followed by mineralisation of collagen suspensions and then evaluation of the collagen-mineral interface. Initially, the suitability of two OCP-carboxylate synthesis …
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Developing the Function Acquisition Speed Test: Using a Functional Research Approach to Build a Novel Implicit Test
… studies reported in this thesis outline the development of a novel implicit test for assessing verbal and social histories. This measure was named the “Function Acquisition Speed Test” (FAST). The current research utilizes a functional research approach drawing upon the seminal research by …
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Alternative Pathways to Peace and Development in Rural Chiapas, Mexico
… sustainable peace through sustainable community development and democratization. Using a qualitative metasynthesis of five ethnographies conducted in Chiapas Mexico, this dissertation develops mid-range theories, or strategies, for building peace in Chiapas and in regions experiencing …