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Health-livelihoods-environment interactions: health and culture in livelihood decision-making and consequences for the environment in Indonesia

dc.contributor.authorClarke, Melinda M., author
dc.contributor.authorGalvin, Kathleen, advisor
dc.contributor.authorBoone, Randall, committee member
dc.contributor.authorOjima, Dennis, committee member
dc.contributor.authorVaske, Jerry, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-11T11:21:00Z
dc.date.available2023-01-08T11:21:00Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis research examines the role of perceived health status in the livelihood decision-making of rural households and associated impact on the environment. I drew on three social-ecological frameworks to conceptualize relationships between health, livelihoods, and environment. The primary hypothesis examined is that changes in health status result in livelihood strategies that depend on increased natural resource extraction. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected in twelve villages of the Dumoga Valley, North Sulawesi, Indonesia from 2015 to 2016. These data were used to develop an agent-based model that acts as an experimental context to examine health-livelihood-environment over a longer timeframe than was captured through field data collection. Illegal, artisanal gold mining is the primary resource extraction activity included in livelihood strategies. A surprising effect identified in qualitative data analysis was that different ethnic groups in the study site display different responses to health status change and have distinct livelihood strategies. Quantitative data analysis demonstrates a relationship between landlessness and engagement in illegal gold mining, but no relationship between mining and health. Dynamics in the agent-based model suggest that health does affect both the number of miners and amount of land cleared. In addition, the model suggests that natural resources play an important role in short-term livelihood strategies developed in times of ill health.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierClarke_colostate_0053A_16317.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/219606
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectIndonesia
dc.subjectagent-based model
dc.subjectsocial-ecological systems
dc.titleHealth-livelihoods-environment interactions: health and culture in livelihood decision-making and consequences for the environment in Indonesia
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thesis.degree.disciplineEcology
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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