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A Livelihood from Fishing: Globalization and Sustainable Fisheries Policies
Alain Le Sann

Practical Action, 1997

Fish constitutes a limited - and jeopardized - natural resource. Yet, in order to meet expanding demand from consumers and, consequently, industry, developed countries import ever increasing volumes of fish. While decommissioned vessels from Northern fleets are being transferred to the South to alleviate pressure on depleted European stocks, countries in the South are exporting more and more sea products to the North. In these conditions, how ...

Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together (Conservation Science ...

Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods : Doing Science Together starts from the understanding that all people create knowledge and that the creation of sustainable livelihoods and of conditions that protect and sustain rural ecosystems are interrelated. Here local experts and professional researchers write independently about the participatory research processes through which they created new knowledge together. They ...

Bushmeat and Livelihoods: Wildlife Management and Poverty Reduction (Conservation Science and Practice)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

This book explores the links between bushmeat and livelihoods in Africa, with a focus on the human dimension of the debate. Assembles biological, social and economic perspectives that illuminate the bushmeat debate Features a series of case studies that explore what species survive different intensities of bushmeat hunting and trapping Examines the shape and size of household bushmeat consumption and market trading Reviews governance ...

Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa
Katherine Homewood

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Top scholars examine issues which lead readers to better understand environmental change in the African continent and its effects on rural African livelihoods. Each of the studies in this book concerns four main issues: conservation, biodiversity, and environment; land use and livelihoods; environmental change; and policies for conservation and development. The volume looks closely at the details of rural resource use, access and control, the ...

Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central ...

The MIT Press, 2008

Our morning cups of coffee connect us to a global industry and an export crisis in the tropics that is destroying livelihoods, undermining the cohesion of families and communities, and threatening ecosystems. Confronting the Coffee Crisis explores small-scale farming, the political economy of the global coffee industry, and initiatives that claim to promote more sustainable rural development in coffee-producing communities. Contributors review ...

Life and Livelihood: A Handbook for Spirituality at Work

2 reviews
Whitney Wherrett Roberson

Morehouse Publishing, 2004

Instructions for running a workplace spiritual group
Life And Livelihood: A Handbook For Spirituality At Work by Episcopal priest Whitney Wherrett Roberson (Associate Pastor of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco) addresses the necessity for spirituality in the setting where most people spend so much of their waking day -- their place of employment. Providing "nuts and bolts" instructions for running a workplace spiritual group, Pastor Roberson covers ...

Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas

6 reviews
Rick Moody

Back Bay Books, 2008

Witty, inventive, yet searing -- & searching for what's right
Moody has contributed a number of glittering nuggets to our literature, and is best known for the more restrained early novels, made into movies. Yet in that longer form, I'd choose PURPLE AMERICA as his most feisty and moving, but after so enjoying my time with RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, I must put my shoulder behind the wheel of these three novellas. I'd characterize the set as a triangulated vision ...

Neale Donald Walsch on Abundance and Right Livelihood (Walsch, Neale Donald, Applications for Living.)

1 review
Neale Donald Walsch

Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1999

Feel Good and do well doing the right thing!
This is a must read for anyone who feels they are just trying to get by. It also releases you from the chains of drudgery in work you really don't want to do.

On Right Livelihood

1 review
J. Krishnamurti

Harpercollins, 1992

One of the best books of Krishnamurti's "teachings"
I've read over 25 Krishamurti books, including all the "big ones" like Freedom from the Known, The First and Last Freedom, Total Freedom, Awakening of Intelligence, Flight of the Eagle, Krishmaurti's Notebook, etc., many of which I've read more than once. I've given all of them away to share K's message but kept four of them which I keep as references for focused daily reflection/meditation (as ...

Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries
Frank Ellis

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

Rural families in developing countries make a living by engaging in diverse activities. These range from farming, to rural trade, to migration to distant cities and even abroad. This book explores the implications of rural livelihood diversity for key topics in development studies and for poverty reduction policies. The livelihoods approach is gaining momentum, and this is the first book to set it out in detail.

Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England (Studies on the History of Society and ...
Sonya O. Rose

University of California Press, 1993

Integrating analytical tools from feminist theory, cultural studies and sociology to illuminate detailed historical evidence, Sonya Rose argues that gender was a central principle of the 19th century industrial transformation in England.

Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
Tirthankar Roy

Routledge, 2007

South Asia, hoe t a quarter of the world's workforce, has in recent years experienced economic growth and unprecedented levels of global integration. Despite this, there continues to be a large disparity in income. Rural poverty remains acute and extensive and manual laborers still constitute the majority of India's poor. Rethinking Economic Change in India departs from the commonly used cultural approach to explain India's economic history, ...

Energy for Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Sustainable Decision Making

Practical Action, 2005

Energy is vital to health, well being and economic survival. But the task of providing sustainable energy services to rural communities in developing countries is a complex one. Social priorities, environmental issues, financial constraints, gender differences, demographic characteristics, technical considerations and institutional frameworks all play some role in ensuring that energy investments meet the needs of local people. The energy ...

Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes (California Studies in Critical ...
Karl S. Zimmerer

University of California Press, 1997

Two of the world's most pressing needs--biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World--are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as is widely believed. He uses the lengthy history of small-scale farming by Indians in Peru, including ...

Work With What You Have: Ways to Creative and Meaningful Livelihood

1 review
Deborahann Smith

Shambhala Publications, 1999

WORK WITH WHAT YOU HAVE
As a career and livelihood coach, I find WORK WITH WHAT YOU HAVE to be a valuable resource -- especially for my clients in the arts or those who are seeking situations beyond the typical 9-5. Plenty of books address issues of money and personality traits in the workplace. This book, rather, presents an inspiring compendium of experiences shared by people (Deborahann and others) who have found ...

The Reinvention of Work: New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, A

4 reviews
Matthew Fox

HarperOne, 1995

The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our
The Reinvention of Work changed the way I view work. As a Career Counselor I realized new ways to work with clients. The book helps one go deeper into understanding what we are really all about in relationship to work. It is not a self-help book and does not profess to be one. The book helps us step outside of ourselves and to consider what is important to each of us in our work beyond the ...

Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous and environmental protection. In the Malay Archipelago, which contains two of the twenty-five biodiversity hotspots identified globally, rampant commercial exploitation is jeopardizing species and rural livelihoods. While protected areas remain the only hope for the imperiled biota of the Malay Archipelago, this protection requires consideration of the sustenance ...

Contested Space: Street Trading, Public Space, and Livelihoods in Developing Cities (Urban Management)

Practical Action, 2006

The importance of public space in supporting city economies and in contributing to poverty reduction is rarely recognized. Instead, public space is more often an arena for contest--between municipal governments or other vested interests, and street traders, whose activities are proscribed by restrictive social norms, ambiguous legal status, street violence, or an official response that vacillates between indifference and eviction. This book ...

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