Sökning: "poverty dynamics"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade orden poverty dynamics.

1. 21. Traps and transformations : Exploring the potential of water system innovations in dryland sub-Saharan Africa

   Författare :Elin Enfors; Line Gordon; Christian Valentin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :smallholder farming; water system innovations; agricultural droughts; multi-functional landscapes; development trajectories; uncertainty; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; naturresurshushållning; Natural Resources Management;

   Sammanfattning : In semi-arid and dry sub-humid sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), high poverty levels and a heavy reliance on small-scale rainfed agriculture make rural livelihoods difficult. Upgrading current farming systems, in a way that safeguards productivity beyond field-scale, is urgent. LÄS MER

3. 22. Transformational knowledge practices in social-ecological systems

   Författare :Diego Galafassi; Victor Galaz; David Tàbara; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; transformations; knowledge coproduction; participatory processes; creativity; art-science; scenarios;

   Sammanfattning : Climate change and poverty alleviation are examples of interconnected challenges propelling changes across environmental, social, cultural and political spheres. Interconnected challenges are characterized by multiple causality, feedback loops, non-linear dynamics. LÄS MER

4. 23. The Transformative Imagination : Re-imagining the world towards sustainability

   Författare :Diego Galafassi; Victor Galaz; Tim Daw; Karen O'Brien; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ways of knowing; transformations; complexity; futures; practice; transdisciplinarity; creativity; art-based; embodied meaning; action-research; science-policy; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   Sammanfattning : A central task for sustainability science in the Anthropocene is to offer guidance on alternative pathways of change. Even though this search and implementation of pathways towards sustainability is likely to require profound social-ecological transformations, little is yet known about the individual and collective capacities needed to support such transformations. LÄS MER

5. 24. Activation Programs, Benefit Take-Up, and Labor Market Attachment

   Författare :Anna Persson; Matz Dahlberg; Eva Mörk; Anders Björklund; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social asssitance; activation programs; workfare; job displacement; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Ulrika Vikman): Previous literature shows that activation requirements for welfare participants reduce welfare participation, but the dynamics behind these results have not been fully examined. In this paper we use a rich set of register data covering the entire working age population in a Swedish municipality to study how the introduction of mandatory activation programs aimed at unemployed welfare participants affect the probability of entering and exiting welfare. LÄS MER

7. 25. Between Nature and Modernity : Agroecology as an alternative development pathway: the case of Uganda

   Författare :Ellinor Isgren; LUCSUS; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural sustainability; smallholder farming; neoliberal modernization; sub-Saharan Africa; Uganda; civil society; rural social movements; emancipatory social science; political ecology; sustainability science; hållbarhetsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Agricultural modernization has massively increased global food supply, but at a high environmental cost. Today many are calling for an agricultural ‘paradigm shift’, including several mainstream institutions. LÄS MER