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Ce livre capitalise les expériences et les résultats d'un partenariat en recherche-action sur les pratiques, innovations et initiatives paysannes en matière de lutte contre la pauvreté et la vulnérabilité des ménages.
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Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention. While they may seem to be unrelated, the international policy frameworks that guide action to address them make an explicit assumption that conserving biodiversity will help to tackle global poverty. Part of the Conservation Science and Practice Series published with the Zoological Society of London, this book explores the validity of that assumption. The book addresses a number of critical questions: Which aspects of biodiversity are of value to the poor? Does the relationship between biodiversity and poverty differ according to particular ecological conditions? ...
Ce guide méthodologique se veut un outil qui prépare l'étudiant à faire de son mémoire une étape importante dans sa formation. Nous pensons qu'il peut être également utile au doctorant dans sa démarche de recherche et spécialement dans la manière dont il
Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along the southern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, global processes of how religions work in practice are analysed by focusing on rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity. Traditionally, Sukuma society was culturally and cosmologically structured around the chief, the ancestors and rainmaking. Everything was dependent upon the rain. Rainmaking as a ritual practice has disappeared and ancestral propitiations are declining, while, at the same time, Christianity is spreading and witchcraft and witch kil...
One of the leading texts in the field, Tourism Management is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of tourism as you study for a degree, diploma or single module in the subject. It is written in an engaging style that assumes no prior knowledge of tourism and builds up your understanding as you progress through this wide ranging global review of the principles of managing tourism. It traces the evolution and future development of tourism and the challenges facing tourism managers in this fast growing sector of the world economy. This book is highly illustrated with diagrams and colour images, and contains short case studies of contemporary themes of interest, as well as new data and statistics.
Pendant quatre ans, des acteurs villageois, des animateurs d'un projet de développement en milieu paysan, des étudiants et des universitaires nigériens et belges,ont participé à un projet de croisement des savoirs: «Consolider la relation entre recherche universitaire et opérations de développement en renforçant les synergies entre savoirs scientifiques et savoirs paysans».Ce livre reflète le contenu de ce croisement des savoirs dans une région située au Centre Sud du Niger: la région d'Aguié, zone rurale transfrontalière avec le Nigeria. Il présente le point de vue des acteurs de ce projet pour qui l’écriture est un moyen ou le moyen privilégié d’expression de la pen...
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This handbook provides a review of relevant topics concerning the interface between culture and mental health, with a particular focus on child-rearing practices and transcultural issues in the perinatal period, infancy, and early childhood. It discusses how to work with infants and families from diverse backgrounds and addresses the most common issues that medical and mental health experts may encounter when working with individuals from other cultures. Chapters examine the considerable range of child-rearing strategies and how families from various cultural groups approach issues such as infant sleep, feeding practices, and care during pregnancy. In addition, chapters address conditions th...