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Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence - Methods for Research and Fieldwork (Paperback)
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Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence - Methods for Research and Fieldwork (Paperback)
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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.
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