Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork
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 particul...
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| author | Angelsen, A. Larsen, H.O. Lund, J.F. Smith-Hall, C. Wunder, Sven |
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| 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace206812025-01-24T14:12:17Z Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork Angelsen, A. Larsen, H.O. Lund, J.F. Smith-Hall, C. Wunder, Sven research livelihoods environmental assessment developing countries household surveys rural communities poverty methodology 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. 2011 2012-06-04T09:15:05Z 2012-06-04T09:15:05Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20681 en Earthscan 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.. |
| spellingShingle | research livelihoods environmental assessment developing countries household surveys rural communities poverty methodology Angelsen, A. Larsen, H.O. Lund, J.F. Smith-Hall, C. Wunder, Sven Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork |
| title | Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork |
| title_full | Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork |
| title_fullStr | Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork |
| title_short | Measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence: methods for research and fieldwork |
| title_sort | measuring livelihoods and environmental dependence methods for research and fieldwork |
| topic | research livelihoods environmental assessment developing countries household surveys rural communities poverty methodology |
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