Chapter 5: Conclusion and limitations
5.2 Limitations and future research
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5.2 Limitations and future research
The uniqueness of the thesis lies on the fact that it endeavored to gather knowledge from various authors, surveys, organizations, etc. in order to offer accurate answers regarding different topics. However, this uniqueness also has its own limitations. Indeed, although the issues that were tackled in this thesis are all related to Permaculture and therefore are all related to each other, most of the time each survey, author or expert addressed one issue at a time and demonstrated that Permaculture could provide the adapted solutions. Yet, this thesis did not ascertain the fact that all Permaculture could combine all the answers at the same time and provide a global solution to the socio-environmental problems mentioned in the introduction.
In that context, a future research could be conducted so as to ascertain that Permaculture can provide this global solution. For example, a survey could be realized on a poor population suffering from anger, malnutrition and directly impacted by the pollution of their environment.
The survey would thus aim at determinng whether a Permaculture project could considerably improve the living conditions of this population.
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