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

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Angelsen, Arild

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781136537332
1136537333

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence : Methods for Research and Fieldwork.DDC classification:

001.4/33 001.433

LOC classification:

HB849.49 .M43 2011

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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.

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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.