Sökning: "Kachung"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade ordet Kachung.

  1. 1. Adoption and sustained use of energy efficient stoves in rural Uganda

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Naturresurser och hållbar utveckling

    Författare :Julia Hoigt; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Sustainable Development; improved cooking stoves; Uganda; new technology adoption;

    Sammanfattning : In 2011, Energy saving (mud) stoves were introduced in villages around the Kachung Forestplantation in rural Uganda as part of an effort to support local sustainable development. Initial fieldwork showedthat the stoves had not been adopted as much as the apparent benefits would suggest. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Can the Clean Development Mechanism bring Community Co-benefits? A case study of the Kachung Forest Project, Uganda

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Författare :Karin Edstedt; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Climate change mitigation; CDM; afforestation; local livelihood implications; climate justice; Uganda; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Global warming is one of the greatest challenges of our time. To globally reduce green house gas emissions, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created under the Kyoto Protocol. LÄS MER

  4. 3. What are trees for : an ethnographic study of local firewood practices in Uganda in the context of deforestation and climate change discourses

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Författare :Filippa Giertta; [2016]
    Nyckelord :firewood; deforestation; climate change; carbon forestry; CDM; Kachung;

    Sammanfattning : Interventions and schemes are being introduced all over the world to stop deforestation and reduce climate change. These interventions, on all levels of scale, follow a dominant global discourse based on a human-environment dichotomy and neo-Malthusian logic, and are driven by narratives of degradation by the local population and linear environmental change. LÄS MER

  5. 4. You are a widow and you will die, so why should you plant trees? : intersectionality in local development activities in connection with a carbon forestry plantation in Kachung, Uganda

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Författare :Lovisa Neikter; [2016]
    Nyckelord :gender; intersectionality; poverty; climate change; CDM; Uganda;

    Sammanfattning : Carbon forestry plantations are a way to achieve statutory global emissions reductions and are also claimed to decrease deforestation. Carbon forestry is not a new system, but has greatly increased in use in recent decades. One such afforestation project, owned by a Norwegian company, is located in northern Uganda. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The History and Di scourse of Kachung Forest

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Författare :Ghide Ghide Habtetsion Gebremichael; [2016]
    Nyckelord :The History and Discourse of Kachung Forest;

    Sammanfattning : This study examined the history of the Kachung forest plantation in northern Uganda and associated environmental discourses. The forest, a project aimed at environmental protection and carbon offsetting, was designated a forest reserve in 1939 by the colonial government, as part of wider efforts to promote Ugandan timber for export and ensure their regeneration as a renewable resource. LÄS MER