Search Results - "Protestant"

Willingness to pay for renewable energy among Indian small and medium-sized enterprises : a contingent valuation experiment by Wakuma, Samuel Tafesse

“…As a robustness check, the Heckman model was used to control for selection bias and protest responses. Additionally, the single-bounded probit model was employed to assess statistical efficiency gains from the second equation in the bivariate probit model. …”

How does climate exacerbate root causes of conflict in Zimbabwe? Climate Security Pathway Analysis by Ferre Garcia, Tania, Madurga-Lopez, Ignacio, Liebig, Theresa, Tarusarira, Joram, Sax, Niklas, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter

“…In Zimbabwe, these impacts may increase grievances and polarization between different groups, including political, regional, and ethnic identities, potentially sparking riots, protests, and collective violence. Growing livelihood and food insecurity often results in migration towards urban centers and foreign countries, sometimes leading to tensions between migrants and host communities. 2. …”
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Are energy transitions an opportunity or risk to climate security? by Bößner, Stefan, Taylor, Alice

“…Increasingly galvanised climate protests and serious calls from scientists formed a pre-cursor to the conference, where countries gathered to negotiate plans to limit global warming to 1.5C. …”
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Planeringsprocessen by Erséus, Lisa, Unnersjö, Sofi

“…Nya bostadskomplex ledde till stora protester och resulterade i att planeringen började om, i ett omtalat projekt: Making space in Dalston. …”
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Data collection: Actionable research to inform rehabilitation and rebuilding of livelihoods in conflict-affected communities in Ethiopia by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Figure 1 illustrates the distribution of different types of conflict events before and after the war broke out in Tigray. While protests and riots were dominant conflict events in the period preceding the first-round survey, battles appear to dominate those conflict events in the three years preceding the second-round survey.…”
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The politics of land use planning: gold mining in Cajamarca, Peru by Jeronimo, R.P., Rap, Edwin, Vos, J.

“…During the last decade, rural communities and urban populations have continuously protested against the opening of new open pit mines, as they fear this will affect their water supply. …”
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Sharing benefits of hydropower at the local level will expedite energy and water resources development in Uttarakhand by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…The present research program found that hydropower projects experienced cost and time overruns due to local agitations and protests. Hydropower developers have few incentives for further investment. …”
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Review of Food security and sociopolitical stability by Christopher B. Barrett by Alderman, Harold

“…Papers discuss food or consequences—food security and its implications for global sociopolitical stability; the future of the global food economy—scenarios for supply, demand, and prices; what we know about the climate of the next decade; the global land rush; global freshwater and food security in the face of potential adversity; managing marine resources for food and human security; crop technologies for the coming decade; livestock futures to 2020—how they will shape food, environmental, health, and global security; labor migration and food security in a changing climate; trade policies and global food security; food security and political stability—a humanitarian perspective; moral economics of food security and protest in Latin America; food security and sociopolitical stability in Sub-Saharan Africa; lessons from the Arab Spring—food security and stability in the Middle East and North Africa; food security and sociopolitical stability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; food security and sociopolitical stability in South Asia; when China runs out of farmers; and food security and sociopolitical stability in East and Southeast Asia. …”
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Realistic options for repurposing fertilizer subsidy spending by Hill, Ruth Vargas, Resnick, Danielle

“…Spending on these subsidies is coming under increasing scrutiny as governments struggle to mobilize additional revenue to meet important development targets amid rising debt distress, dwindling aid resources, and citizen protests against unpopular tax increases. One solution proposed by a growing consensus of voices is to repurpose expensive subsidies towards expenditures that generate higher development benefits. …”
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Farewell welfare : local manifestations of the welfare society in two rural Swedish towns by Carlfjord, Sofia

“…It has transformed them from small trivial villages to modern service centers, but also stripped away some of their functions through further rationalization and modernization, which locally is perceived as a marginalizing let down. Through protesting against this marginalization, the inhabitants of the town create new acting space and further affect the local place and development. …”

How does climate exacerbate root causes of conflict in Uganda? Climate security pathway analysis by Sax, Niklas, Madurga Lopez, Ignacio M., Liebig, Theresa Ines, Maviza, Gracsious, Kenduiywo, Benson, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter R.D.

“…Deprived urban youth have engaged in violent protests and grievances towards the government are increasing. 2. …”
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Political economy of wheat value chains in post-revolution Sudan by Resnick, Danielle

“…In 2019, increasing bread prices precipitated the protests that ousted the government of Omar al-Bashir. …”
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Messiness of forest governance: How technical approaches suppress politics in REDD+ and conservation projects by Myers, R., Larson, A.M., Ravikumar, A., Kowler, L.F., Yang, A.L., Trench, T.

“…Since its inception, REDD+ proponents have increasingly had to adapt global ideas to local demands, as the rollout process was met with on-the-ground realities, including suspicion and protest. As is typical in aid or ‘development’ projects conceived in the global North, most of the solutions advanced to improve REDD+ tend to focus on addressing issues of justice (or ‘fairness’) in distributive terms, rather than addressing more inherently political objections to REDD+ such as those based on rights or social justice. …”
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Introduction: Political economy of food system transformation by Resnick, Danielle, Swinnen, Johan

“…The impacts of the Ukraine war reverberated far and wide in 2022, amplifying weaknesses in many countries’ agricultural and food strategies and generating citizen demands for government accountability. From massive food protests in Tunisia that threatened the country’s fragile democracy to the siege of Ecuadorean cities by indigenous groups demanding more affordable food, global unrest reminded the world of the centrality of political economy to food systems at the international, national, and local levels.…”
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Farmers’ awareness and perceptions of the new farm laws 2020 in India: Empirical evidence from a household survey by Kumar, Anjani, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar, Bathla, Seema

“…This has provoked serious discussion, criticism and even protest, especially in Punjab and Haryana to the extent that the Supreme Court put them on hold for some time. …”
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Fenylbutazon - tillåta vid tävling? by Olofsson, Linda

“…The list was voted to be accepted, but later several countries realized the consequences and after protests the list was rejected and is going to be discussed again at the FEI General Assembly 2010. …”
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Resistance is Utile by Andersson Johansen, Mimmi

“…This study aims to understand how civil society organize in order to maintain public service with the example of the occupation of Sollefteå Hospital. The protest opposes the closure of acute health care wards, most notably the maternity ward. …”
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Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 and political instability in Myanmar by Headey, Derek D., Cho, Ame, Mahrt, Kristi, Diao, Xinshen, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…Then, just as the economy was showing signs of recovery in early 2021, the military took control of the government on February 1, 2021, sparking wide-scale protests and strikes, withdrawal of major foreign investments, crippling financial instability, and a collapse of economic confidence. …”
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2008 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger by von Grebmer, Klaus, Fritschel, Heidi, Nestorova, Bella, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, Yohannes, Yisehac

“…Higher food prices have also caused violent and nonviolent protests in dozens of countries. In this context of higher food prices, prospects for improving food and nutrition security do not appear favorable, given that at least 800 million people were food insecure even before the food price crisis hit. …”
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The slippery slopes of forest governance in the Chure range by Bjärnlid, Hanna

“…The community forest users’ representative organization is actively protesting and opposing the Chure intervention but on local level effects have yet to reach individual households. …”
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