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Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork

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Title Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork
 
Creator Angelsen, A.
Larsen, H.O.
Lund, J.F.
Smith-Hall, C.
Wunder, Sven
 
Subject research
livelihoods
environmental assessment
developing countries
household surveys
rural communities
poverty
methodology
 
Description Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year. Unfortunately, many suffer from weaknesses in methods and problems in implementation. Quantifying households' dependence on multiple environmental resources (forests, bush, grasslands and rivers) is particularly difficult and often simply ignored in the surveys. The results therefore do not reflect rural realities. In particular, 'the hidden harvest' from natural resources is generally too important to livelihoods for development research, policies and practice to ignore. Fieldwork using state-of-the-art methods, and in particular well-designed household questionnaires, thus becomes an imperative to adequately capture key dimensions of rural welfare. This book describes how to do a better job when designing and implementing household and village surveys for quantitative assessment of rural livelihoods in developing countries. It covers the entire research process from planning to sharing research results. It draws on the experiences from a large global-comparative project, the Poverty Environment Network (PEN), to develop more robust and validated methods, enriched by numerous practical examples from the field. The book will provide an invaluable guide to methods and a practical handbook for students and professionals.
 
Date 2011
2012-06-04T09:15:05Z
2012-06-04T09:15:05Z
 
Type Book
 
Identifier Angelsen, A., Larsen, H.O., Lund, J.F., Smith-Hall, C., Wunder, S., (eds.) 2011. Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork . Edinburgh, UK, Earthscan. 240p ISBN: 9781849711333..
9.78E+12
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20681
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/3341
 
Language en
 
Publisher Earthscan