Tag Archives: livelihoods

Experimenting with focus groups

contributor/ May 11, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

Posted on behalf of Mariska Bottema, PhD candidate at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University and Research Centre. I just completed research in my third field study site and would like to use this opportunity to reflect on some of my experiences with conducting focus groups, since this was the first time I have applied this method of data

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Payment for Environmental Service Forest Restoration Project, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

contributor/ April 30, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

Posted on behalf of Eza King, Master’s Candidate Research Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University, Thailand The residents of Pong Khrai village in Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand have a reputation for being conservation minded. I wasn’t sure exactly what this meant but the staff at Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests (LEAF) Thailand had assured me,

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Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Upper Thung Jaw Watershed, Hua Lao Village, Thailand

contributor/ April 3, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

An Overview of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) project in Upper Thung Jaw Watershed, Hua Lao Village, Pa Pae Subdistrict, Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand Posted on behalf of Rapipun Maoyot, Chiang Mai University Using information gathered from the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) study in Hua Lao Village in which Karen people live, historical backgrounds of

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The Community Forest of Hua Thung Village

contributor/ March 19, 2017/ Blog/ 1 comments

Posted on behalf of Chattrabhorn Bua-in, Master’s student, Chiang Mai University This is a sharing of my fieldwork experiences in Hua Thung village, Thailand. I would like to talk about the area of the community forest of Hua Thung village during quite a long interval of fieldwork. My fieldwork gave me the opportunity to view different seasonal conditions of the

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Wild mushroom collecting: An open access is not open

contributor/ February 24, 2017/ Blog/ 0 comments

Posted on behalf of: Liu Xingyong and Lu Xing, Yunnan University Wild mushroom is very delicious and nutritious. Yunnan Province in the southwest China has the richest wild mushroom in China and has an annual value of RMB 10 billion (USD1.43 billion). At present, wild mushroom can’t be artificially cultivated and must be collected by farmers in uplands from forests

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Ecotourism in Laos

Kyle Wagner/ October 17, 2016/ Blog/ 3 comments

For the summer of 2016, my fieldwork was set in North East Lao PDR at the Nam Et-Phou Louey (NEPL) National Protected Area. This protected area is roughly 4,229 km2 and is home to a number of endangered species such as the tiger, gaur, Sambar deer, and white-cheeked gibbon. Wildlife Conservation Society, an INGO aimed at “saving wildlife and wild

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Investigating the Impacts of Fisheries Reform in Songkhla, Thailand

contributor/ September 18, 2016/ Blog/ 0 comments

Olivia Tran – Master’s student at the University of Ottawa, Canada Songkhla port was quiet.  The afternoon air smelled strongly of fish and salt, a comforting smell for anyone who has worked in fisheries.  Once every block, you might see a family, some resting fish porters, or a few people cleaning and icing fish, but it was largely empty. While

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On the Unexpected and Unplanned

contributor/ February 26, 2016/ Blog/ 0 comments

Author: K. Roberts, PhD Candidate York University Conducting research in hard to reach locations and conducting research when not from those locations presents its own challenges. All hail that advent of preliminary research and collaborations! As a North American working in the uplands of Southeast Asia, I could not have moved forward without the privilege of spending nearly my entire

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Dolphin Safe Tuna in Thailand

contributor/ January 20, 2016/ Projects/ 0 comments

SurveyDolphin Safe AEII Thailand Dolphin Safe as a certification program faced struggles with Thai fishermen and local communities, as the sudden rise in power of the certifying organisation endangered their livelihoods.