LAB P.A.C.E: Psychology Applied to Environmental studies and Cooperation
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Research Object:
- Fight against poverty
- Participatory framework for sustainability : a new method to evaluate international cooperation projects
- Define and test models on cooperation for sustainable development
- Assess microcredit and micro-enterprise potentials in different developing populations
- Project Morocco: Nomads awareness and training against desertification in the Middle Atlas, protection of the Cedar forest ecosystem in North Africa and of the nomadic Amazigh populations
- Project Thailand: Evaluation of human impact on the environmental and local population. Coral Reef protection and promotion of local culture and economy
- Project Parks: Applications of "Participatory framework for sustainability" model to evaluate and try resolve conflicts between local stakeholders, tourism and authorities in Italian natural parks
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Methods:
- Fieldwork research
- Environmental monitoring
- Promote participation, formation and self-implementation
- Interviews and questionnaires administered to local populations
- Dynamic of models for sustainability
