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Microfinance through Women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) for Grass-root level Empowerment: An Empirical study of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
(kassel university press, 2016)
Microfinance, as a concept, involves providing financial services, particularly small credit, fund transfer, and insurance to the unemployed, low-income group, and those who do not have easy access to the banking system. It has emerged as an active agent of financial inclusion, ensuring economic, and social upliftment of the unprivileged. Microfinance is being operated through two channels Self-help Group-Bank Linkage Programme (SBLP) and Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs). The special characteristic of SBLP is its ...
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Überregionale Potentiale lokaler Innovationsimpulse
(kassel university press, 2012)
Technische und soziale Innovationen gelten als Schlüssel zur Energiewende: Sei es die Erzeugung und Nutzung von Ökostrom, die Beteiligung von Bürgern an Bürgersolaranlagen oder der Bau von Bioenergiedörfern – in den vergangenen zehn Jahren konnten sich verschiedene Neuerungen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien auf dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausbreiten und damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Klimaschutz leisten. Doch wo und unter welchen Bedingungen werden zunächst kleine und lokal begrenzte Innovationsimpulse ...
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Transformations of traditional landuse systems and their effects on development opportunities and people’s livelihoods in Northern Ghana
(kassel university press, 2015)
Agricultural land in Northern Ghana was under the traditional arrangements till recent times. Small-scale farmers and their families could collect water, firewood, fodder andseasonal fruits or carried out hunting on communal lands, owned by local chiefs and fetish priests, under the provisions made by customary laws.Recent developments in this area include up-scaling of the mining industry, large scale commercial agriculture projects and cultivation of biofuel crops. All these developmentschemes are affecting access ...
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Design and implementation of a generic modeling framework - a platform for integrated land use modeling
(kassel university press, 2008)
Land-use as “the total of arrangement, activities and inputs that people undertake in a certain land cover type”, in contrast to land-cover being the “observed physical and biological cover of the earth’s land, as vegetation or man-made features” is a crucial link between human activities and the natural environment and one of the main driving forces of global environmental change.
Given the importance of land-use, it is essential to understand the interactions between the multitude of influential factors and resulting ...
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Decency of primary occupations in the Indian fishing industry
(kassel university press, 2018)
Indian fisheries are moving from artisanal to capitalistic methods of production. As this transformation takes place, many traditional fishers are forced to seek employment on trawlers and other fishing vessels owing to their lack of a capital base to purchase modern vessels themselves. Competition among trawlers can lead to cost reducing strategies that lower the quality of working conditions for those employed in these vessels. This paper is an attempt to assess the working conditions of these workers through the ...
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Solar Thermal Energy Storage System
(kassel university press, 2019)
Thermal energy storage technologies are gaining attention nowadays for uninterrupted supply of solar power in off-sunshine hours. An indigenized solar phase change material (PCM) system was developed and performance evaluated in the current study to efficiently store solar thermal power using a latent heat storage approach, which can be utilized in any subsequent decentralized food processing application. A 2.5 m2 laying Scheffler reflector is used to precisely focus the incoming direct normal irradiance (DNI) on a ...
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Crop Insurance and Risk Mitigation: Experiences from India
(kassel university press, 2016)
Crop losses due to various reasons, particularly because of extreme weather situations, is a common phenomenon in agriculture and can prove to be catastrophic in the numerous rain fed fields of backward regions. It is against this backdrop that the development of sustainable mitigation strategies, one of them being crop insurance, comes into picture. It is worth noting in this context that agriculture insurance is under developed in developing countries and a World Bank study (2010) reveals that many state sponsored ...
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Care Extractivism and the Reconfiguration of Social Reproduction in Post-Fordist Economies
(kassel university press, 2019-04)
This paper suggests the concept of care extractivism as a space- and time-diagnostic tool to international political economics in post-fordist societies. Analogous to resourceextractivism, care extractivism depicts the intensified commodification of social reproduction and care work along social hierarchies of gender, class, race and North-Southas a strategy to cope with a crisis of social reproduction. Extractivist policies result in the creation of a cheap reproductive labour force.The paper analyses the current ...
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Land-use modelling in the GLOWA Jordan River Project
(kassel university press, 2014)
This report presents the results from the land-use simulation study which has been carried out at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR) as part of the GLOWA Jordan River project1 (sub-project 3.3.). A central objective of GLOWA Jordan River was to analyse the vulnerability of water resources in the Jordan River basin under the influence of global change. In this context the land-modelling system LandSHIFT.JR has been adapted and applied to calculate spatially explicit scenarios of land-use change on ...
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Documentation Report: Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Labour Market
(kassel university press, 2018)
This report aims to document and evaluate the outcomes of the regional workshop on “Syrian Refugees and Integration of Syrians” held in İstanbul in February 2017. The workshop was organized by the Global Labour University (GLU) Alumni Network in Turkey in collaboration with International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), the University of Kassel, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), International Labour Organization (ILO), Global Labour University (GLU), Boğaziçi University Centre for Educational ...