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The main objective of this work is to review the recent achievements on the mechanisms explaining local and rural development, which underpin the current definition of rural areas in the European literature. The analysis carried out in this article acknowledges a gap between local development...
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This paper evaluates a new technology for providing water. The technology, developed by Haiti Outreach (HO), is distinguished by a program training communities to manage wells. The effects of training are identified by comparing HO's wells with wells refurbished by HO but subsequently managed...
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This paper explores the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011. The work develops an original empirical framework able to capture the policy and socio-economic determinants of households’ resilience capacity by making parametric statistical...
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suggest that designing gender-sensitive policies and institutionalizing gender in climate change adaptation and mitigation … adaptation to climate change mainly focus on a comparison of male-headed and female-headed households. Aiming at a more nuanced … information and adaptation options for husbands. Social groups help husbands and wives to enhance their welfare through …
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The reality of climate change is now well-accepted and there is emerging evidence that climate change poses a massive threat for development especially in poor countries. An understanding of the emerging trends of climate change and its effects in local ecologies is an important starting point...
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … will also be an adaptation to future climate change. It is important to stress that we are interested in long-term climatic …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … will also be an adaptation to future climate change. It is important to stress that we are interested in long-term climatic …
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vulnerability of natural-resources based livelihoods to climate-related impacts. Our analysis found that worldwide, the indicators … adaptation plans and policies context-specific. …
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