• Institutional sustainability of collaborative resource use agreements in Mount Elgon, Uganda 

  Kawuki, Kiggundu Joseph (Master thesis, 2007)

  Six forest reserves were turned into National Parks in 1993 of which one of them was Mt. Elgon. Local people were then denied the traditional access to forest resources resulting into local people – park conflicts, especially ...

• Employment opportunities and challenges for less educated women in geriatric home health care : a case study from Cairo, Egypt 

  Lotze, Kathrin (Master thesis, 2007)

  This study is addressing the problem of women from lower income classes in Cairo to find work opportunities because of their low level of education. At the same time, there is an increasing demand for geriatric home health ...

• Perceptions and experiences with ‘participatory approaches’ in the CATIE/Norway project in Guatemala 

  Alpízar Ugalde, Karol (Master thesis, 2007)

  Field-based experiences and the criticism of the ‘technology transfer approach’ in agricultural research and extension were basic to the emergence of the ‘participatory approaches’, whose main ambition is all stakeholders’ ...

• Livelihood revival in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in the war affected Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka 

  Kandasamy, Sathiyasegar (Master thesis, 2008)

  Sustainable interfaces between natural resources and people are the sound bases for livelihoods that ensure development. In Batticaloa district in the east of Sri Lanka, the last three decades of civil war followed by the ...

• A participatory approach to fisheries management and ecological-social resilience analysis among coastal communities in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka 

  Aruchunan, Kalpana (Master thesis, 2007)

  In Batticaloa, the tsunami of 26th December 2004 violently struck the coastal communities and ecosystems which had already been negatively affected by 20 years of civil war. This study analysed the socio-ecological resilience ...

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