Essays about: "experimental geography"

Showing result 16 - 17 of 17 essays containing the words experimental geography.

  1. 16. Impacts of infectious diseases on poverty : What do we know and what way forward?

    University essay from Nordiska ministerrådet/Nordic School of Public Health NHV

    Author : Anita Blomfeldt; [2007]
    Keywords : Infectious Diseases; Household Economics; Poverty; Impact Assessment Methodology; Interventions; Sub-Saharan Africa; Infeksjonssykdommer; fattigdom; husholdsøkonomi; konsekvensanalyse; intervensjoner; Afrika;

    Abstract : Combating infectious diseases and poverty are hot topics on the world development agenda. The vicious cycle of ill health and poverty is reinforced by a “medical poverty trap” relating to households being impoverished due to escalating illness-related out-of-pocket costs, especially in combination with loss of income due to incapacity to work. READ MORE

  3. 17. Water harvesting in Bakel, Senegal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Åsa Skillius; [1991]
    Keywords : geography; physical geography; water harvesting; Bakel; Senegal; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : This is the result of a field study performed during July -September 1990 in Bakel, eastern Senegal. The village Bakel is in a semi-arid region with low agricultural productivity as a result of drought, degraded soils and excessive rainwater runoff. READ MORE