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Women’s experiences of participatory small-scale fisheries monitoring in Timor-Leste
Participatory fisheries monitoring can create many benefits, such as increasing community engagement in marine management, generating data for...
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Distilling Livelihoods in Timor-Leste: Fataluku Ecologies of Practice
This paper builds on the celebrated monograph by James J. Fox, entitled, Harvest of the Palm: ecological change in eastern Indonesia (1977). Fox’s...
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Avoiding the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Most-Likely Case
Why do some countries escape the political resource curse while others do not? Most scholars argue that avoiding the claimed anti-democratic effects...
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Collaborative Management of Protected Areas in Timor-Leste: Stakeholder Participation in Community-Based Tourism in Mount Ramelau
This chapter offers an overview of the system for governance and management of protected areas (PAs) in Timor-Leste. Authors analyze the nexus of...
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Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding
International Organizations (IOs), such as the United Nations (U.N.), engage in statebuilding in a range of post-conflict states. Statebuilding...
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Continuum of maternal and new-natal health care: empirical evidence from 10 develo** countries in South and South East Asia
Maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity, particularly in develo** countries, are high even in the twenty-first century, which is a cause for...
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Wild Foods and Food Security: The Case of Timor-Leste
Many rural households in the develo** world are subject to chronic seasonal food insecurity. Foraging for wild foods is often cited among co**...
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Trends in Population and Socioeconomic Development in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is composed of 631.7 million people (World Bank in Health nutrition and population statistics, 2015) spread across 11 countries that...
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The Dynamic Linguistic Cartography of Dili, Timor-Leste: Negotiating Languages in an Urban Context
Dili, the small capital and the main urban center of Timor-Leste, has become, since the Independence of the country in 2002, the main stage for the...
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A New Phase: Step** up a Gear?
As the Seasonal Worker Program developed, interest grew in both Australia and the Pacific island countries in its expansion into sectors outside...
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Research on Gender-Based Violence in Southeast Asia: Some Notes on the Studies
This chapter will be talking about the experience, lesson learnt, and some critical notes of studying the case and handling process of gender-based...
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Eating Meat or Eating Money? Factors Influencing Animal-Source Food Consumption in Timor-Leste
Poor dietary quality is an underlying contributor to the high rates of maternal and child undernutrition in Timor-Leste. The majority of households...
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The Love Ethic: Love and Activism for Ecosocial Justice
In “The Love Ethic: Love and Activism for Ecosocial Justice,” Godden and Peter position themselves as part of a growing movement of social work...
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Rural Livelihood Variation and its Effects on Child Growth in Timor-Leste
Economic development introduces opportunities for subsistence households to diversify income sources. Timor-Leste is undergoing this transition;...
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Transformational Adaptation of Communities Through Systems Development
This chapter aims to advance understanding of how transformational adaptation can be achieved in communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis....
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Transformational Adaptation of Communities Through Systems Development
This chapter aims to advance understanding of how transformational adaptation can be achieved in communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis....
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Four Regionalisms: Legislative Types Comparison
We conceptualize multilateral treaty participation, i.e., promulgation and ratification, as a quasi-legislative vote to a quasi-parliamentary body to...
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Gleaning: beyond the subsistence narrative
Coastal resources are important for the wellbeing and livelihoods of people in coastal communities across the world but are used and valued...
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