| Deborah Eade, Suzanne Williams - 1995 - 502 pages
...relationships: A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable which can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets,... | |
| Susanne Neubert - 2000 - 188 pages
...the centre, the following definition of SRL is proposed: "A livelihood comprises the capahilities, assets (including both material and social resources)...from stresses and shocks and maintain or enhance its capahilities and assets both now and in the future, while not undermining the natural resource base.... | |
| Jonathan Rouse, Mansoor Ali - 2001 - 13 pages
...adaptation) in understanding the nature of a sustainable urban livelihood. 'A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (including both material and...resources) and activities required for a means of living. Alivelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and maintain... | |
| Koos Neefjes - 2000 - 292 pages
...which are all required for a means of living. A person or family 's livelihood is sustainahle when they can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and maintain or enhance their capahilities and assets hoth nowandin thefuture, without undermining environmental resources.'5... | |
| International Institute for Environment & Development - 2000 - 238 pages
...by Chambers and Conway: “A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (both natural and social) and activities required for a means of living; a livelihood is sustainable which can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks, maintain or enhance its capabilities and... | |
| Sally Jeanrenaud - 2001 - 172 pages
...leased to individuals or communities for forestry purposes. 1 Livelihoods Livelihoods comprise the capabilities, assets (including both material and...from stresses and shocks and maintain or enhance its capacities and assets both now and in the future, while not undermining the natural resource base.... | |
| OECD - 2002 - 336 pages
...places people at the centre of development." Box 3. Sustainable livelihoods Livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (including both material and...activities required for a means of living. A livelihood can be said to be sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, and maintain... | |
| Carole Rakodi - 2002 - 319 pages
...themselves. Drawing on Chambers and Conway (1992), a livelihood is defined as comprising '. . . the capabilities, assets (including both material and...resources) and activities required for a means of living' (Carney, 1998, p4). Coupled to this definition, and based on the recognition of the importance of the... | |
| William Buhler - 2002 - 174 pages
...SRL has become very popular with aid agencies such as DFID. Within SRL, a livelihood 'comprises the capabilities, assets (including both material and...resources) and activities required for a means of living' (Carney, 1998) and, when sustainability is included: A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with... | |
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