Essays about: "Livelihoods"

Showing result 41 - 45 of 381 essays containing the word Livelihoods.

  1. 41. The Ecological and Anthropogenic Impacts of fishing gear in a tropical system : How the size of Spotted Rose Snapper (Lutjanus guttatus) and the ratio of target catch, is influenced by approved fishing gear within a marine area of responsible fishing in the South-Western Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM)

    Author : Alfred Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Overfishing; overexploitation; Spotted Rose Snapper; Lutjanus guttatus; Gulf of Nicoya; Costa Rica; marine protected areas; artisinal fishermen; bycatch; Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture; incopesca; fishing gear; longlines;

    Abstract : The oceans are essential for humanity, yet these systems continue to be degraded and suffer from pollution, habitat destruction and overexploitation. The Costa Rican Gulf of Nicoya is a productive gulf that is fished by both large-scale industrial fisheries and small-scale artisanal fishermen. READ MORE

  3. 42. Predicting Health and Living Standards of India using Deep Learning

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Sarath Mookola Raveendran; [2022-10-14]
    Keywords : IWI index; Deep CNN; poverty; ResNet-18; Deep Learning; multispectral images; nightlight images; India; health and living standards;

    Abstract : Poverty eradication is an inexorable process in human growth [21], with poverty estimation being the first and most important stage. Identifying strategies for poverty reduction programs and distributing resources appropriately requires determining the poverty levels of distinct places throughout the world. READ MORE

  4. 43. Coping with Covid-19 in rural India: Did financial strategies help to maintain wellbeing?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Simona Koria; Jennifer Träff; [2022-06-30]
    Keywords : Psychological Wellbeing; Financial Coping; Unconditional Cash Transfer; Covid-19; Panel Data; Propensity Score Matching; Low-and Middle Income Countries;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the direct impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on psychological wellbeing and explores the mediating role of financial coping strategies for this association. Using four waves of representative panel data, collected in 2018, 2020 and 2021 from 2 997 households living across 294 villages in the state of Odisha, India, we find that stress increased whilst depression decreased, resulting in psychological wellbeing being unchanged during the pandemic. READ MORE

  5. 44. Something Fishy on the High Seas: International Regulation, State Capacity and Common Pool Resources

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Konstantin Felix Heim; [2022-06-20]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Overfishing is a large-scale collective action problem that poses real threats to the marine ecosystem, livelihoods, food security, and the world’s climate. Thus, understanding fishermen’s compliance with fisheries regulations is particularly valuable. READ MORE

  6. 45. “The forest is gone bit by bit" - Deforestation and its impacts on indigenous communities in Prey Lang, Cambodia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Marie Theresa Jürgensen; [2022]
    Keywords : Kuy indigenous people; resource frontiers; frontiers of existence; Prey Lang; Cambodia; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Globally, deforestation is occurring at staggering rates and causing tremendous impacts on the planet. Indigenous people, in particular, have long depended on the forest, and their beliefs and ways of life are highly affected by the changes occurring around them. READ MORE