Livelihood gains and ecological costs of NTFP dependence: assessing the roles of dependence, ecological knowledge and market structure in three contrasting human and ecological settings in south India [PDF]
, 2004 Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) constitute the single largest determinant of livelihoods for scores of forest fringe communities and poor people in the tropics. In India over 50 million people are believed to be directly dependent upon NTFPs for their
Aravind, N.A. +13 more
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Community-driven sanitation improvement in deprived urban neighbourhoods: meeting the challenges of local collective action, co-production, affordability and a trans-sectoral approach. [PDF]
, 2013 There is an international consensus that urban sanitary conditions are in great need of improvement, but sharp disagreement over how this improvement should be pursued.
McGranahan, Gordon, SHARE
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The influence of human settlements on the parasite community in two species of Peruvian tamarin
Parasitology, 2009 SUMMARYAlthough there is a growing recognition that the transfer of diseases between humans and non-human primates can be of great significance for conservation biology, there have been only a few studies focusing on parasites. In this study, saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) from the rainforest of the Peruvian ...
Wenz, A. +3 more
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Gatherings of mobility and immobility: itinerant “criminal tribes” and their containment by the Salvation Army in colonial South India [PDF]
, 2014 In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility ...
Arora, Saurabh
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Teacher professional development: ''Be a force for good''
Journal of Community Service and Empowerment, 2023 The teacher's lack of understanding of the use of technology in the classroom seems to be inversely proportional to the Merdeka Curriculum which requires teachers and students to be able to keep up with technological developments. Therefore, training on
Lilia Indriani +3 more
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Does Greek Conservation Policy Effectively Protect the Cultural Landscapes? A Critical Examination of Policy’s Efficiency in Traditional Greek Settlements [PDF]
, 2014 The first part focuses on the legislative framework, providing a critical examination regarding the way that cultural landscape is approached. The second part discusses the effects of this policy on a group of traditional settlements in central Greece ...
Katapidi, Ioanna
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Delivering online community service from community perspective: A critical review
Journal of Community Service and Empowerment, 2023 This study presents a sharp and critical analysis of community service activities conducted by Indonesian university actors through zoom platform. Since the onset of the 2020 pandemic, community service activities have been compelled to transition to ...
Andi Sri Wahyuni
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Avtalt selvbosetting blant flyktninger og det norske bosettingsregimet1
Tidsskrift for boligforskning, 2018 I de senere årene har norske statlige myndigheter oppfordret kommunene til å ta i bruk «avtalt selvbosetting», en ordning som innebærer at flyktninger finner bolig på egen hånd i det private leiemarkedet i overenstemmelse med bosettingskommunene ...
Erik Henningsen, Susanne Søholt
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Developing guidelines for early detection of child and adolescent mental health problems
Journal of Community Service and Empowerment, 2023 Children, like adults, can suffer from various mental health issues, but they are rarely recognized. This research aims to create early detection guidelines that can be used by those closest to children, such as parents and teachers in schools.
Nandy Agustin Syakarofath +2 more
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Urbanizing the wild: shifts in bird communities associated to small human settlements
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012 Urbanization limits the number and type of species that can colonize urban environments. As habitatchange and large abundances of urban exploiter species have been related to changes in urban bird communities, weevaluated shifts in the bird communities in 2 small sized settlements, 1 with exploiter species and one without them.Our results show that ...
Ian MacGregor-Fors, Jorge E. Schondube
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