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

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.

General

Imprint:	Earthscan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Arild Angelsen • Helle Overgaard Larsen • Carsten Smith Olsen
Dimensions:	231 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	263
ISBN-13:	978-1-84971-133-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities
LSN:	1-84971-133-X
Barcode:	9781849711333

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