By analysing farming as an economic activity of farm households competing with household production and off-farms use of that household's resources optimal as well as minimum farm sizes can be defined very clearly. - (L'A.).
The paper assesses the use of a household diary approach as a means of framing and collecting household environmental data, and as an educational vehicle for bringing about behavioural change by encouraging reflexivity.
HATS: a technique for investigating household decisions
L'HATS (Household Activity-Travel Simulator) est une technique d'enquête permettant d'étudier les décisions quotidiennes des ménages sur leur utilisation des transports et des services. Description des procédures d'interview et du matériel d'enquête
Border effects on household dissolution in the Banat region, Yugoslavia
The incidence and the long-standing tradition of the multifamily and multigenerational households in the past time have been attributed to the influence of Turkish and Austrian state regulations. An attempt is made to estimate the share of vital
and spatial mobility factors. In the contemporary process of household dissolution the impact of vital mobility decreases and the impact of spatial mobility increases going from the center towards the periphery.
The household life-cycle and housing demand : a case study
The article is restricted to an analysis of the adjustment of living space in dwellings to the needs of households occupying multi-family cooperative houses. The investigation has been based on information elicited through interviews
of the inhabitants of buildings administrated by the cooperative « Anin ». To define the types and needs of households the A. applied the periodization of the life cycle as developed by P. Hooimeijer, W. A. V. Clark, and F. M. Dieleman. - (DG)
This study aims to obtain more insight into the extent to which the urban form plays a role in the household's spatial-energetic practices in order to broaden our understanding of the opportunities to achieve a more sustainable future. The study
The paper deals with household strategies, subsistence agriculture, livelihoods and resilience in Botswana. This article explains that a commonly supported livelihood strategy is not self-evident in rural households. On the basis of a combination
of quantitative and qualitative methods the term `Sozietät` is developed. The term describes the level of economic organisation and whether there is a collaborative strategy within a household. - (IfL)
Forecast of complex households development and composition in the Czech Republic until 2010
Czech Republic ; Demography ; Divorce ; Family ; Forecast ; Household ; Marriage rate ; Mortality ; Population
The forecast is based on three variants of further expected development of nuptiality, divorce as well as mortality, changing population composition according to family status. Of course, the discussion on the average complex households minimum