TY  - BOOK
AU  - Angelsen,Arild
AU  - Overgaard Larsen,Helle
AU  - Smith Olsen,Carsten
TI  - Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence: Methods for Research and Fieldwork
SN  - 9781136537332
AV  - HB849.49 .M43 2011 
U1  - 001.4/33001.433 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hoboken
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Household surveys
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Questionnaires
KW  - Rural poor
KW  - Rural development
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - REFERENCE
KW  - Research
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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