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Livelihoods

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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Transnational labour migration and livelihoods in rural Asia: Tracing patterns of agrarian and forest change

, 2021
While scholars and policy makers have increasingly focused on transnational labour migration (TLM) in Asia, few comparative studies have analysed how TLM shapes poverty, livelihoods, vulnerability, and agrarian-forest change across different rural ...
R. Sunam, K. Barney, J. McCarthy
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The role of invasive alien species in shaping local livelihoods and human well-being: A review.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2019
Invasive alien species are a well-recognised driver of social-ecological change globally. Much research has focused on ecological impacts, but the role of invasive species for livelihoods and human well-being is less well known. Understanding the effects
R. Shackleton, C. Shackleton, C. Kull
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The influence of culture on the sustainable livelihoods of households in rural tourism destinations

, 2020
This paper describes a modification of the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) and reports the effects of culture on the sustainable livelihoods of households in a typical rural tourist site in Wuyuan county, Jiangxi province, China.
Xiaolong Ma   +3 more
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Sustainability of rice-based livelihoods in the upper floodplains of Vietnamese Mekong Delta: Prospects and challenges

, 2021
Rapidly changing hydrological conditions under climate change, upstream developments, and local water infrastructures require transformative changes in water management strategies for the agriculture sector in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD).
D. Tran   +4 more
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Do environmental conservation programs contribute to sustainable livelihoods? Evidence from China's grain-for-green program in northern Shaanxi province.

Science of the Total Environment, 2020
Several studies reported that conservation programs worldwide have profoundly reshaped participants' livelihoods and influenced other socio-economic processes.
Xiaohu Dang   +6 more
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Livelihoods, capitals and livelihood trajectories

Progress in Development Studies, 2011
To 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 ...
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