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Tackling difficult issues: Lessons from research in Ecuador

Sociological studies of communities living within or close to areas of exceptional biodiversity play an integral role in any conservation strategy because they can identify impacts on the environment and highlight less harmful means of production. The need to generate the community's confidence is essential in nurturing cooperation. This article summarises some lessons learnt from a research...

Methodology for pro-poor tourism case studies
The project on Pro-poor Tourism Strategies (2000–2001) was designed to assess what was already being done in different countries to develop ‘pro-poor tourism’ (PPT), to assess preliminary impacts, and to identify ‘good practice’ lessons of use to others. Six case studies were chosen to cover a range of countries, and a spread of types of initiatives and implementers (government, NGO, business)....
Pro-Poor tourism strategies: Making tourism work for the poor: A review of experience

The research reported here has been undertaken jointly by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Centre for Responsible Tourism at the University of Greenwich (CRT), together with in-country case study collaborators. It was funded by the Economic and Social Research Unit (ESCOR) of the UK Department for International...

Wealth ranking for agricultural research purposes in the eastern hills of Nepal

Wealth ranking was used in Nepal to understand better the diversity of agricultural households and to help target research efforts more appropriately. The authors focus on the methodological dilemmas raised after the wealth ranking is done: 'the real expertise is needed at the stages of data collation, interpretation and application'. The danger lies in seeing the method as a simple tool and...

Review of the impacts of previous pro-poor tourism research: Results of a survey to follow-up pro-poor tourism research carried out in 2000-2001
Is a ‘pro-poor’ approach useful in thinking about tourism? How, and in what way? Does it help to understand or prioritise tourism issues related to poverty, and does it affect actual practice? Such questions underlie a survey that was undertaken in 2002, the results of which are reported here. In 2000-2001, six case studies of ‘pro-poor tourism’ initiatives were assessed as part of a DFID funded...
Lore: Capturing traditional environmental knowledge
In recent years, the value of the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples, and particularly their traditional environmental knowledge, has been recognized. This has unleashed a flood of research. Some of the research has been undertaken by scientists working alone, but the most innovative responses to this trend have been developed by indigenous researchers working in collaboration with...
Research for development in the dry Arab region: The cactus flower
This book summarizes and reflects upon ten years of participatory action research in an isolated community in northeastern Lebanon. The sustainable use of marginal lands project in Arsaal was originally conceived following an initial diagnosis of the situation and was designed in response to the identification of conflicts over the use of limited and degraded land and water resources on...
Research for development in the Middle East and North Africa
The book covers research for development in countries in the Middle East and north Africa, including Morocco and the Palestinian areas where there are mountains. Many of the development issues are generic, applicable to mountain communities as well as lowland areas. International Development Research Centre (IDRC) www.idrc.org
Actions on relevance of science, engineering and technology training to development challenges in Africa

This report summarises the outcome of deliberations on relevance of science, engineering and technology training to development challenges in Africa. The conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa 25-17 September 2007 was the second in a series after the first such held in Accra, Ghana in 2005.

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) have been the main instruments that have been...

Working with indigenous knowledge: A guide for researchers
Why work with indigenous knowledge (IK)? In an article on sustainability and technology transfer, Richard Wilk (1995), an American anthropologist, mentioned a file folder of materials that he had accumulated over several years. The file contained 25 separate project proposals, feasibility studies, implementation plans, and project assessments. Submitted over a period of a century, all these...

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