Essays about: "Environmental Education in Rural Development"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 46 essays containing the words Environmental Education in Rural Development.
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16. “We do this for the environment to feel good” : children’s perspectives of environmental education
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This study investigates two schools, which are a part of Keep Sweden Tidy’s environmental education program, Green Flag. One goal of environmental education is for its participants to adopt pro-environmental behaviors. READ MORE
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17. What are trees for : an ethnographic study of local firewood practices in Uganda in the context of deforestation and climate change discourses
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Interventions and schemes are being introduced all over the world to stop deforestation and reduce climate change. These interventions, on all levels of scale, follow a dominant global discourse based on a human-environment dichotomy and neo-Malthusian logic, and are driven by narratives of degradation by the local population and linear environmental change. READ MORE
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18. An investigation of rural migrants' happiness status in Changsha city : A trial of social urban planning in China's second-tier cities
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : China has among the world’s fastest growing urban region and faced enormous environmental and social challenges that requires a forward thinking of urban planning, which integrates environmental sustainability and social equity into urban resilience. In China, national and provincial urban policies have long focused on economic and industrial developments, whereas social welfare was not account for urban planning until very recently. READ MORE
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19. Why the whiteness in Swedish outdoor recreation? : a discourse analysis of gender and ethnicity in Swedish environmental policy and practice
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : As of 2009, Swedish Outdoor Recreation is guided by public policy, pleading for everyone’s equal value and right to experience and be outdoors, regardless of gen der, age or colour (2009/10:238). Given Swedish Outdoor Recreation history of being founded upon the perspectives of a white, male middle class (Sandell, 2009), this opens up for the questions of how the goals of equality are achieved and what ideas about nature, gender and ethnicity are actually being reproduced. READ MORE
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20. Human-wildlife conflict mitigation in Peninsular Malaysia : lessons learnt, current views and future directions
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Among the wild animals in peninsular Malaysia tigers and elephants seem to be the most threatened species after the Malaysian rhinoceros which have dwindled to critically low numbers. Agriculture expansion and palm oil production is the main driving force that affects natural habitat of these magnificent mammals bringing people in conflict with wild animals. READ MORE
