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Local Knowledge and Livelihood Sustainability under Environmental Change in Northern Ghana
(2010-11-09)
One of the most daunting challenges of development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and northern Ghana in particular, is how to secure livelihoods for rural populations under environmental change. This dissertation explores how rural ...
Irrigate or migrate?: Local livelihood adaptation in Northern Ghana in response to ecological changes and economic challenges
(2010-11-05)
At all times, people had to adapt to processes of ecological change. But the strategies and mechanisms of the adapting of livelihoods to those processes have certainly gained more and more global attention since the effects ...
“Marketing and Market Queens”: A case of tomato farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana
(2010-11-17)
The tomato sector in Ghana has always been viewed as a potential sector for employment and income generation. In the Upper East Region, its significance was back in the 1960s when the government supported the sector with ...
Dynamics of Planning Process in the Lower Mekong Basin: A Management Analysis for the Se San Sub-Basin
(2010-07-02)
The purpose of this study was to explore how various actors have responded to hydropower dam impacts in the Se San river basin as away to unpack how river basin management works in practice. The Se San river basin is shared ...
Ehe, Familie und andere Lebensgemeinschaften in Spanien: Die Familie als sozio-emotionaler Stabilisator und intergenerationeller Konfliktherd
(2010-02-23)
Die Familie stellt heute die zentrale Institution der spanischen Gesellschaft dar, die die Versäumnisse und Defizite des Sozialstaates auffangen muss. Ohne den Einfluss der Kernfamilie hätte Spaniens Eintritt in die ...
Actors, Alliances and Power in Negotiations: Unequal Distribution of Mining Benefits in Tarkwa's Gold Mining Area of Western Ghana
(2010-04-27)
The gold mining sub-sector is an important segment of the Ghanaian economy and continues to play a significant role in the country’s socio-economic development (Akaabza, 2008:1). At the moment, Ghana is Africa’s second ...