Gender, justice and livelihoods in the creation and demise of forests in North Western Ethiopia’s Zeghie Peninsula

This doctoral dissertation explores how the people of Zeghie, living in a designated sacred area, have confronted and attempted to survive internal and external pressures on their forest-based, coffee-dependent livelihoods. For generations the peninsula has embraced strict rules that have helped sus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asfaw, Tihut Yirgu
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5472