Taiwan is an island country which is surrounded by sea, and fishery is very important for both the welfare of people and the local economy. The development of fishing villages in Taiwan has a long history. However, the development of the fishing village in Taiwan has been declining because of recent economic recession, science and technology progress and the change of the public viewpoints. Cheting Township is no exception. The characteristics of fishing villages are different from each other. In this regard, this research investigates the present situation and background of Cheting Township thoroughly, and expect to offer appropriate suggestions for Cheting Township to have a new shift of future development. Traditionally, Cheting Township is famous for the catch of mullet roe. In the past, the local people enjoyed the business vary much. Nevertheless, the situation has been changing due to the environmental degradation and the decline of fishing resources. For instance, the public is not satisfied with the development at present and also are not optimistic about the future. These imply that this fishing county needs some changes for its future development. Therefore, this thesis tries to understand the development characteristics of Cheting Township and proposes relative developmental strategies. These strategies will combine the local characteristics and the operation of community renascence so that to develop marine tourism and recreational fishery as well as to improve the quality of the environment. Through referring to abroad experience, it hopes that the local fishermen can be well educated and actively participate in the fishing village development. In other words, the concept of community renascence will be included into the future regeneration of Cheting Township. Since the development of every village is different, this research has to understand the present situation of the fishing villages and then consider relative developmental solutions. Through local investigation and interviews, the research designs a questionnaire to examine the current situation and the relevant issues. The researcher also conducts an interview to check the viewpoints of the local government officials. After the analysis of these interviews and questionnaires, the thesis proposes the comprehensive developmental strategies and turther steps to integrate the planning and management of all related facilities which including the recent development idea of the ¡§love seaport¡¨ in Singda Harbor. In summary, the aim of this thsis is to develop the regeneration strategies of fishing villages in Cheting Township so that to reach the goal of sustainable development of fishing villages with the high quality of living environment.

Every local government make all-out efforts to hold different kinds of art festivals in order to present their local cultural characteristics every year, such as Kaohsiung Zuoying Quarter Million Art Festival and Pingtung Back Tuna Art Festival. However, the impact of suspension of Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Art Festival is obvious. Based on my observation of field studies, the intense contrast between blossom of Kaohsiung Zuoying 2008 Quarter Million Art Festival and downfall of Pingtung Back Tuna Art Festival comes from whether the art festival is unique or not. Copy is the main reason for failure of art festivals. In the past, few studies focus on applying internet marketing strategy to promote every local government art festivals and studying its application and effects. That is why the purpose of this study is based on the case of Kaohsiung Dashu Township Lai Fung Art Festival in order to gather internet marketing strategy, the relative information on marketing tools and opinion of participants from in-depth interviews and analysis of documents. Therefore, after collecting results of interviews and comparing them with other relative studies and my observation, this study reveals the internet marketing strategy for Kaohsiung Dashu Township Lai Fung Art Festival. The main focuses of this studies are as follow, (a) finding the track of internet marketing strategy (b) local government marketing strategy and its relationship with internet marketing tools (c) how local government use its internet to set up effective marketing strategy (d) the impact internet marketing tools bring to Kaohsiung Dashu Township Lai Fung Art Festival (e) according to results of interviews and the needs of interviewees to set up websites, blogs shopping platforms and nature ranking of keywords search in order to assist Kaohsiung Dashu Township Lai Fung Art Festival promotion, advance development of local economy, improve the marketing channels of local agriculture products and farmers¡¦ life.

The aim of the study was to analyse the survival strategies of the poor households in Boitumelo township. The research methodology used herein was two fold: Firstly, a literature research based on economic journals, previous research projects, books and internet was done in order to develop a better understanding of poverty. Secondly, an empirical research survey using questionnaires was undertaken. Over the years there have been competing theories which provide an understanding of poverty. Each approach has its strengths and weaknesses. Poverty captures a wide range of meanings, depending on who is defining it. Although various technical solutions have been suggested for differentiating the poor and non-poor using the monetary approach, there is no theory of poverty that clearly differentiate the poor from the non-poor. The survey results showed that 41% of all households in Boitumelo are poor and on average have an income shortage of 63% to the poverty line. Poverty within the area has a gender bias as 76% of the poor are females. The large number of households below the poverty line provided ample opportunity for further analysis to find out about the activities that they use to sustain themselves. Being unemployed in government or manufacturing industries, the urban poor are compelled to create some sort of jobs for themselves. Street vending, odd jobs, gambling, seeking credit on exploitative terms, income from state welfare, begging for survival are just a few of the activities urban poor adopt to survive / Thesis (MCom (Economics))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2013

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1930. / Bibliography: p. 141-144.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1940. / Published also without thesis note. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. 168-170.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MTech (Public Management)) --Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2009 / There is mounting dissatisfaction among South African communities concerning the state of housing and safety and security in South Africa. This, coupled with intentions of government, which have not always been as successful as anticipated, has led to situations where communities that were promised development, embark on uprisings against poor service delivery, which they receive. This study investigates involvement of all stakeholders, specifically the community, in community development projects, in order to determine what effect this has on the end result of community development projects. The main focus of this study comprises involvement of the community and the impact that it could have on the initiation and planning steps of the project management process. The study uses both a qualitative and quantitative approach. The quantitative survey was administered through use of two closed ended questionnaires; one was directed at residents of the N2 Gateway, as the beneficiaries of the N2 Gateway Housing Project, and the other at residents of Langa on four subdivisions of Langa, namely northern, southern, eastern and western Langa. The qualitative survey was administered in the form of interviews that were held with managers in the Provincial Government of the Western Cape who are responsible for implementation of the Bambanani Against Crime Project and the N2 Gateway Housing Project. The study reveals that both projects made little use of community engagement during the initiation and implementation stages, which had a visible effect on results of the project, as confirmed by results of the survey. However, the project had a different approach owing to the nature of the project. The Bambanani Against Crime Project solely relied on volunteers from the community for implementation and this aspect had a big impact on the end result of the project. The N2 Gateway Housing Project did not accommodate community involvement at any stage of the project, which ultimately led to dissatisfactory results in respect of views of the community, and the department that implemented the project.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of shopping mall developments on consumer behaviour in township areas. Local and international research indicated that shopping mall developments in low-income communities result in several benefits for consumers, such as convenient location; a larger variety of goods offered, lower prices than small retailers in the area and better quality of goods, amongst others. Studies also indicated that the choice of the preferred supermarket/shopping mall is not a rational decision based only on pricing, but on a compromise of satisfying economic, social and psychological needs. A two part mixed methodology, which employed both qualitative and quantitative methods, was adopted. This included semi-structured interviews with retail experts and interview-administered questionnaires with the primary retail shopper in the household. The sample population was Alexandra Township in Gauteng, South Africa. Findings revealed that low-income consumers prefer to shop from the closest shopping mall instead of small retailers/Spaza Shops because of the lower prices and a larger variety of goods offered. However, evidence suggested that consumers prefer to shop at a shopping mall that represents their desired lifestyle, therefore shopping mall developments in township areas, do not fulfil the social and aspirational needs of low-income consumers. For this reason, low-income consumers continue to purchase from malls in urban areas.</pCopyright / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / MBA / unrestricted

A study, as part fulfilment of the MBA requirements, was undertaken to establish the critical success factors within the township establishment process through the Townplanning and Township Ordinance 15 of 1986. The study included a literature survey and evaluation of current practises to get a thorough understanding of the present requirements and procedures available to developers to do township establishment. This created a knowledge base from which a guideline was extracted to determine what activities are critical to the township establishment process in terms of the Township Ordinance. This was supported by personal interviews and questionnaires with experienced relevant role players i.e. developers, project managers, engineers and town planners to draw on their experiences with regard to the factors which they deem critical to the successful establishment of a township. The study found that there are four critical success factors that can have a detrimental impact on the profitability of a project. These factors include the quality of the professional team, preliminary investigations, geotechnical and environmental investigations. However, with the current skill shortages and lack of enthusiasm experienced within the local and external governmental bodies, obtaining statutory approval from these authorities seems to have a more significant impact on the timely transformation of land into residential, commercial or industrial stands. The findings of the study concluded that the crux of a successful township application lies in the pro-active management, integration and coordination off all activities within the scope of the professional team, local and external bodies: Obtaining statutory approval from local and external authorities is becoming increasingly difficult as local authorities lack the necessary expertise and enthusiasm to facilitate the application process. This places further emphasis on the pro-active management of all activities to optimize the township establishment process in order to minimize the risk of project delays, cost overruns and loss of income. It is therefore recommended that careful consideration supported by further research be conducted to identify the managerial activities and requirements to manage the township establishment process successfully within the present environment of an uncoordinated approach, acute shortage of skills, lack of knowledge and even corruption as a new simplified bill will not necessarily remove all the present short comings. This should include the structures required to develop the necessary capacities within the governmental authorities to facilitate the process. Copyright / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Graduate School of Management / unrestricted

Magister Educationis - MEd / The purpose of this study was to investigate the difficulties encountered by the grade ten township learners with respect to the concept of electricity. More specifically, the study attempted to explore the learners’ scientific knowledge by investigating their conceptions or alternative conceptions about electricity; the influence of learners’ age, career interests and gender issues on their conceptions of electricity and; the effectiveness of concept mapping (a pedagogic tool designed by Novak in the 1970s) in facilitating the learners’ understanding of electricity. The study was premised on socio-cultural constructivism as well as meaningful learning as espoused by Ausubel (1968).A Pre-Test-Post-Test Control Group Design was adopted in the study in which two comparable groups were used. The data was analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative research methods and the instruments that were used included a conception of electricity (COET) (originally adopted and administered in the Western Cape, Northern Cape provinces and in Norway in 1999 for the purpose of Science and Technology Literacy Project (STLP) with the hope that their reliability and validity was guaranteed); selected learner interviews and evaluation forms.The summary of findings has suggested that the Grade ten learners held misconceptions about the concept of electricity even after they were exposed to intervention that included concept mapping. In terms of the gender issues, there was no significant difference in performance between the boys and girls though the females outperformed their male counterparts at both groups. The underachievement of the older learners compared to the younger ones has also surfaced and that is against expectation since a number of studies carried out earlier (see Ogunniyi (1999)) have already corroborated such findings. With respect to career interests, what the learners indicated as their future dreams, i.e. what they intend to do and become, seems to have been influenced their performance at the pre- and post-test stages.