Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence / edited by Arild Angelsen, Helle Overgaard Larsen, Carsten Smith Olsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelsen, Arild, editor.

Larsen, Helle Overgaard, editor.

Smith-Hall, Carsten, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Household surveys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, [2011]

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-53733-3

1-84977-569-9

9781849775694

OCLC:

900580479