• Stakeholders' perceptions of land degradation and the management in Bamba, Mali 

  Dembele, Abdramane (Master thesis, 2006)

  This thesis analyzes the perceptions among local people and officials on land degradation. This study explored and documented the perceptions of different stakeholders in terms of causes and indicators of land degradation. ...

• Combating or adapting to child labour? : household livelihoods, institutional interventions and the sports goods industry in Punjab, India 

  Dhatt, Anupam (Master thesis, 2008)

  This study addresses child labour occurrence in the proximity of the Indian sports goods industry in rural Punjab, north-west India. The study investigates the existence of child labour through a household based analysis, ...

• Utopia - coexistences - phenomenology : agricultural practices and approach to agriculture in the community of Jansiac 

  Calcoen, Violaine Francoise A. (Master thesis, 2007)

  The present study investigates an example of agriculture intended to be an alternative to the form of agriculture prevailing nowadays in Western Europe. The case on which it rests is a community settled in a mountainous ...

• Crossing the river : perceptions of 'human trafficking' among villagers in Bokeo Province, Northern Laos 

  Gotehus, Aslaug (Master thesis, 2006)

  The phenomenon of human trafficking has been subject to an increasing international attention in recent years. The concept of ‘human trafficking’ is a blurred one, and to a large extent based on assumptions and perceptions ...

• Ecological and social resilience of mangroves of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka in the face of human activities, conflict and natural hazards 

  Thavanayagam, Mathiventhan (Master thesis, 2007)

  Mangroves are important resources and provide various ecological goods and services of significant socio-economic importance to the livelihoods of coastal dwellers. This paper concentrates social–ecological resilience of ...

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