Work, education and out-migration among children and youth in upland Asia: changing patterns of labour and ecological knowledge in an era of globalisation

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.countryVietnam
cg.coverage.countryChina
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2VN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionEastern Asia
cg.coverage.subregionDa Krong
cg.coverage.subregionBuxa
cg.coverage.subregionShaoguan
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.716410en
cg.issn1354-9839en
cg.issn1469-6711en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalLocal Environmenten
cg.volume18en
dc.contributor.authorPunch, S.en
dc.contributor.authorSugden, Fraseren
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-17T14:39:57Zen
dc.date.available2015-03-17T14:39:57Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/58426
dc.titleWork, education and out-migration among children and youth in upland Asia: changing patterns of labour and ecological knowledge in an era of globalisationen
dcterms.abstractIn the context of ecological and economic change, this paper identifies the impact of ongoing transformations in young people's labour contribution in four natural resource-dependent regions in India, Vietnam and China. Children's work is important to maximise household labour productivity, while also endowing them with the ecological knowledge necessary to sustain key productive livelihood activities. However, today, an increased emphasis on education and the out-migration of youth is reducing their labour contribution, particularly in the more economically developed case study communities in Northern Vietnam and China. While selective in its extent, these changes have increased the labour burden of older household members and women, while the economic opportunities young people aspire to following schooling or migration frequently prove elusive in a competitive liberalised economy. Another implication of young people diverting their labour and learning away from traditional natural resource-based livelihood activities is the loss of valuable ecological knowledge.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPunch, S.; Sugden, Fraser. 2013. Work, education and out-migration among children and youth in upland Asia: changing patterns of labour and ecological knowledge in an era of globalisation. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, Special Issue. 18(3):255-270. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.716410en
dcterms.extentpp. 255-270en
dcterms.issued2013-03
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherInforma UK Limiteden
dcterms.subjectglobalizationen
dcterms.subjectchildrenen
dcterms.subjectyouthen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectlabour productivityen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjecteconomic aspectsen
dcterms.subjecteducationen
dcterms.subjectecologyen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectliving standardsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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