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Livelihoods, capitals and livelihood trajectories
Progress in Development Studies, 2011To move urban livelihoods approaches beyond description to strategic action, its core concepts of livelihoods, capitals and livelihood outcomes (termed here as trajectories) need a more comprehensive and sociological conceptualisation. First, social structures are unpacked to show how livelihoods need to be thought of in terms of livelihood ...
Tara van Dijk
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2022
This chapter focuses on the three sources of income in the Viking Age economy: pillaging, farming, and trade. It highlights that there was tension between these sources of income as people in Viking Age society lived a hand-to-mouth existence, and plundering and trading claimed human resources that would otherwise be working the farm.
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This chapter focuses on the three sources of income in the Viking Age economy: pillaging, farming, and trade. It highlights that there was tension between these sources of income as people in Viking Age society lived a hand-to-mouth existence, and plundering and trading claimed human resources that would otherwise be working the farm.
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A Livelihood Approach to Sustainability
Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 2009It is argued that although sustainable development has received widespread acclaim, practical application of the concept has been fraught with difficulties. Furthermore, when adopted and adapted by a single sector such as tourism, further problems arise because many sustainability challenges are inter-sectoral, involving competition for the use of ...
Wall, G, Tao, TCH
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Sustainable livelihoods and livelihood diversification
2016This paper constitutes a preliminary output of the ODA-funded research programme on sustainable livelihoods being carried out by the Institutes of Development Studies and the Poverty Research Unit at the University of Sussex, in collaboration with the International Institutes for Environment and Development.
Hussein, K., Nelson, J.
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2023
Livestock husbandry has long been a main source of livelihood for Central Asian peoples. The Inner Asian system of pastoralism, characterised by multispecies herding and seasonal mobility on open pastures, underwent a double death in the twentieth century, both linked with livestock ownership: collectivisation in the 1930s and privatisation in the ...
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Livestock husbandry has long been a main source of livelihood for Central Asian peoples. The Inner Asian system of pastoralism, characterised by multispecies herding and seasonal mobility on open pastures, underwent a double death in the twentieth century, both linked with livestock ownership: collectivisation in the 1930s and privatisation in the ...
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Detecting Livelihoods: The Use of Earth Observation for Livelihood Mapping in Kenya
2023Livelihood mapping can play a crucial role in understanding and addressing poverty and development challenges. This study presents a novel methodology for high-resolution livelihood mapping using openly available geospatial data and a Kohonen Self-Organizing Map clustering algorithm.
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The Impact of Epizootics on Livelihoods
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2008Epizootics (nonhuman animal disease epidemics) can have detrimental impacts on livelihoods through a complex interaction of demographic trends, food production, and animal disease. Differences in the rate of demographic shifts, including rates of population growth, economic growth, urbanization, environmental sustainability, and role of women in ...
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Translocal Livelihoods: New Perspectives in Livelihood Research
2019The most advanced operationalization of “translocality” is found in (geographical) development studies, specifically within livelihood research. The livelihood perspective and the translocal perspective are analytically mutually enriching. On the one hand, the livelihood approach opens a methodological perspective on translocal agency, allowing for the
Malte Steinbrink, Hannah Niedenführ
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Rural Livelihood Complexes: A Perspective on Mishing Livelihood System
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017North-eastern India, despite its multifaceted potential, is one of the most underrated and least explored regions of the country. In terms of natural resources, the region is identified as one of the world‟s biodiversity hotspots. This immense potential, however, is yet to be interpreted into economic prosperity. The very concept of livelihood in North-
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