Title Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence : Methods for Research and Fieldwork

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages) Contents 1. Why measure rural livelihoods and environmental dependence? -- 2. Why do field research? -- 3. Composing a research proposal -- 4. Sampling: Who, how and how many? -- 5. Collecting contextual information -- 6. The division of labour between village, household and other surveys -- 7. Designing the household questionnaire -- 8. Valuing the priceless: What are non-marketed products worth? -- 9. Preparing for the field: Managing AND enjoying fieldwork -- 10. Hiring, training and managing a field team -- 11. Getting quality data -- 12. Data entry and quality checking -- 13. An introduction to data analysis -- 14. Communicating research for influence and impact -- Index Summary 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-a Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Household surveys -- Developing countries -- Methodology Questionnaires -- Developing countries -- Methodology Rural poor -- Developing countries Rural development -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries REFERENCE -- Research. Household surveys -- Methodology Questionnaires -- Methodology Rural conditions Rural development -- Environmental aspects Rural poor SUBJECT Developing countries -- Rural conditions Subject Developing countries Form Electronic book Author Overgaard Larsen, Helle Smith Olsen, Carsten ISBN 9781136537332 1136537333

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