Essays about: "land use narratives"

Showing result 16 - 17 of 17 essays containing the words land use narratives.

  1. 16. Dynamic Assessment of the narrative ability in a group of South African preschool children

    University essay from Logopedi

    Author : Carolina Limmerstedt; Elisabeth Lyhre; [2011]
    Keywords : dynamic assessment; culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds CLD ; biased testing; narratives;

    Abstract : Standardized tests are generally based on the norms of the majority population who share the same culture, language and above all, similar prior learning experiences. Because of this, it is problematic for clinicians to use standardized tests when assessing children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. READ MORE

  3. 17. Sahelian re-greening - merging a view from above with one from below

    University essay from Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Marat Murzabekov; [2010]
    Keywords : greening; environmental degradation; landscape change; land use change; Niger; the Sahel.;

    Abstract : In the early 2000’s scientists noticed an increase in biomass production in the Sahel for the period 1982-2002 (a process which is referred to as ‘greening’). The goal of this thesis was to investigate the greening phenomenon at the local scale in 4 villages in south-central Niger and compare results of the investigation with the already available regional scale studies. READ MORE