Canada has responsibilities to mitigate climate-changing greenhouse gases that will disproportionately affect the developing world. This research comprehensively considers differential adaptive capacity to climate change ...

In an era where "partners" for development is a common buzzword among the development community, levels of interaction and coordination between stakeholders are measurements for evaluating the collaboration efforts of ...

With a changing world order leaning gradually toward neo-liberal practices, fewer resources are being allocated for community development. More and more urban and rural communities are being told to take an increasingly ...

In El Salvador, the situation of the rural community is one of profound impoverishment and environmental deterioration, as a consequence of historical neglect by the state and twelve years of civil war. This has increased ...

The twenty-first century has seen the words self-reliance, participation, accountability, capacity building and learning as common in development rhetoric as they are contravened in practice. This practicum report shows ...

Protectionist forest conservation can have negative impacts, as people are excluded from local lands and resources in the name of conservation. Negative ecological effects can also ensue, especially where poverty is ...

Over the past decade and a half, sustainable development has become a major developmental focus for many international organizations. As a result, recognized inefficiencies of various governmental services in providing ...

Kenya, in a similar fashion to the rest of the developing world, is experiencing rapid urbanization which is resulting in the formation of slum settlements on the outskirts of urban centres. Cities are growing at unprecedented ...

Since the beginning of the 1970s, the informal sector has been a subject of increasing attention. Initially, attempts to understand workers making a living outside the official formal economy took a negative view. However, ...

Despite international initiatives to ensure Universal Secondary Education, many countries continue to face issues with secondary school retention and completion. As this thesis will demonstrate, this may be due to a wide ...