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1. 1. Emotional intelligence, need for cognition and cognitive reflective ability related to attitudes towards a further training program among preschool staff

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Psykologiska institutionen

   Author : Joakim Lundgren; [2017]
   Keywords : emotional intelligence; need for cognition; cognitive reflective ability; attitudes; further training program;

   Abstract : There are currently scarce research regarding further training programs and employees’ attitudes toward them. This present work examined 95 preschool employees from one municipal community in matters of emotional intelligence, need for cognition, and cognitive reflective ability and how these influenced their attitudes toward a further training program called International Child Development Programme, ICDP (study 1). READ MORE

3. 2. The effect of integrated conservation and development programs in protected areas on human wellbeing : an empirical analysis of Brazil’s bolsa floresta programme

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Elan Swartz; [2015]
   Keywords : additionality; Amazon; Brazil; conservation reserves; economics; human-wellbeing; ICDP; impact evaluation; matching; program evaluation;

   Abstract : Considering the current debate over which strategies are most effective in promoting environmental and human welfare in protected areas, we focus on Integrated Conservation and Development Programs, an approach which seeks to find ‘win-win’ outcomes by supporting environmentally sustainable and profitable income generating sources. Counter, the predominant literature, we measure program effectiveness in terms of human welfare, accounted for by relative changes in household income and asset growth. READ MORE

4. 3. Diversifying livelihoods and land management : A case study on the prospects and challenges of a permaculture project in rural Las Pavas, Nicaragua

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Dobrota Susanna; [2015]
   Keywords : Permaculture; Nicaragua; Las Pavas; rural livelihoods; diversification; land management; sustainable livelihood approach;

   Abstract : The socioeconomic context of many biodiversity rich countries is argued to be heavily dwarfed in current conservation and development debate, resulting in that projects that intersect complex issues of development and conservation are often simplistically deemed as being unsuccessful. The aim of this research has therefore been to attain a more profound understanding of how socioeconomic conditions and local neoliberal contexts effect ICDP projects and to an extent also agroecological transition. READ MORE