Essays about: "local community participation"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 205 essays containing the words local community participation.

  1. 26. Vår festival 2022

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Prachi Patil; [2022-05-27]
    Keywords : Community building; social innovation; participatory design;

    Abstract : Vår festival focuses on community building from a participatory design perspective within a multi-ethnic small town in Sweden where 7 to 9 year old children are deprived of participating in their local community and influencing its culture. During this project, I used my position as a child culture designer to investigate the realities of child participation and aimed to expand children's agency and belonging in their neighbourhood. READ MORE

  3. 27. Business in transit: Entrepreneurship and integration of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Turkey. A qualitative comparative study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Ghadeer Hussein; [2022]
    Keywords : Integration; Syrian Refugees; Entrepreneurship; Refugee Effect; MENA region; Transit countries; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Syrian crisis has forced around five million Syrian refugees to flee their homes and cross the borders to seek asylum in other countries. Most of those refugees live in neighbouring countries, and their only viable option is local integration and full participation in the economic and social life in the host countries. READ MORE

  4. 28. Heritagization of Food. : The Case of Qeshm Island, Iran.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Yeganeh Tajik; [2022]
    Keywords : Heritagization; Food Heritagization; Food Tourism; Food Festival;

    Abstract : The heritagisation of food reveals the underlying processes by which various actors articulate a particular foodstuff as a heritage in an attempt at pursuing differing aims. Food heritage evokes images, memories, and pride, or motivates habitual consumption, and it can become a lifestyle or even a source of income. READ MORE

  5. 29. Putting down new roots: The political economy of relevance for ‘climate-smart’ agriculture in rural Uganda.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Johannes Temm; [2022]
    Keywords : climate-smart agriculture; political ecology; smallholder adaptation; phenomenology; land use management; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : A growing body of literature within political ecology is concerned with the exercise of political and economic power within climate change policies (Robbins, 2020). In this thesis, I explore the political economy of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), using methodological reflections and empirical material from a case study of a Ugandan smallholder agricultural community. READ MORE

  6. 30. Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change – A Scoping Review of Success Factors, Challenges & Lessons Learnt

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Jovana Ostojic; [2022]
    Keywords : Community-based adaptation; local adaptation; participatory approaches; climate change; adaptive capacities; resilience; traditional knowledge; Science General;

    Abstract : There has been growing recognition that local communities possess adequate knowledge, skills, experience and understandings of vulnerabilities and risks associated with their lives and livelihoods, and that this should be included in climate change adaptation (CCA). As a result, community-based adaptation (CBA) is being increasingly implemented as means to adapt to climate change (CC). READ MORE