Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence: Methods for Research and Fieldwork

by Sven Wunder, Arild Angelsen, Carsten Smith-Hall, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184971133X
• ISBN13: 9781849711333
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"