Essays about: "Durable Inequality"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words Durable Inequality.

  1. 6. The Back way to Europe : A case study about why young men in Gambia are prepared to risk their lives to get to Europe

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Frida Strand Jagne; [2014]
    Keywords : Gambia; Young men; Back way; Migration; Irregular migration;

    Abstract : Irregular migration is one of our times challenge and the news about migrants dying in the Mediterranean Sea seems to be more and more common these days. African migrants are risking their lives migrating by routes through the desert on trucks packed with migrants to get to Libya; this route is called the back way. READ MORE

  3. 7. 'Benefits beyond carbon' : for whom? : gender analysis of communal forest governance and forest resource use in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Larissa Stiem; [2014]
    Keywords : REDD ; women; sustainable forest management; feminist political ecology; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In an effort to mitigate global climate change, the REDD+ mechanism (an acronym for ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stock’) continues to be put forward as an attractive carbon sequestration and forest conservation tool. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), hosting more than 63% of the Congo Basin rainforests, is the biggest receiver for REDD+ funding in Africa. READ MORE

  4. 8. Intersecting Inequality : An Interpretative Minor Field Study of Inequality in Bolivia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV

    Author : Maria Erlingsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Bolivia; Charles Tilly; Inequality; Durable inequality; Intersectionality; Gender; Ethnicity; Class;

    Abstract : This Bachelor thesis is an interpretive study, where the material has mainly been gathered through ethnographic methods, with thematically opened interviews and observations providing the primary data. A field study was conducted in Bolivia during the months of November and December of 2009; in La Paz in the Western highlands, including some interviews in the fast growing suburb El Alto, as well as in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the Eastern lowlands. READ MORE

  5. 9. Alcohol Abuse Reproduced by Structural Inequalities : A Case Study in rural Mexico

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Sandra Karlsson; [2007]
    Keywords : Structural Inequalities; Alcohol; Development; Indigenous People;

    Abstract : Author Sandra Karlsson E-mail: [email protected], skaiv02@student. READ MORE