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Mit Hilfe empirischer Untersuchungen in Kumasi versucht der Autor die These von der "flexiblen Spezialisierung" zu testen, welche im ersten Abschnitt erläutert wird. Die untersuchten Fahrzeug-Reparaturwerkstätten werden zunächst in die kleinbetriebliche Wirtschaftsstruktur der Stadt eingeordnet. Dabei wird deutlich, daß unter speziellen Bedingungen die Kleinbetriebe durchaus Wettbewerbsvorteile haben können. Im letzten Teil macht der Autor auf die Auswirkungen der Strukturanpassung aufmerksam, die wiederum nur wenigen Firmen Nachfragezuwachs bescherte. (DÜI-Sth)

In order to assess the role played by policies in informal sector development the International Labour Organization initiated a series of studies on policies and their impact on the urban informal sector in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper assesses the impact of the structural adjustment programme on this sector in Nigeria. It is based on a sample survey of micro-enterprises in selected activities within the informal sectors in the urban areas of Lagos and Zaria carried out during 1992. The findings of the study suggest that the impact of the structural adjustment programme in Nigeria on the urban informal producers seems to be negative. (DÜI-Hff)

In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures