Vulnerability components and livelihood asset type
ASSET BASED VULNERABILITY
... Plan testing for workability Many utilities will find it helpful to test emergency response and disaster recovery plans on a periodic basis possibly using table-top or mock exercises to help assure that they are 1) up to ...
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Livelihood vulnerability index analysis: An approach to study vulnerability in the context of Bihar
... of livelihood and income during the period the area is inundated, which can be more than 3 ...between vulnerability and resilience, the LVI was used with livelihood strategy components removed ...
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Livelihood Adaptation, Risks and Vulnerability in Rural Wolaita, Ethiopia
... distress asset sales, renting out agricultural land, or borrowing for coping purposes and, should therefore be supported by provision of credit, infrastructure development, human resource development as well as ...
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Application of Livelihood Vulnerability Index in Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in Northern Ghana
... The second major component is the socio-demographic profile which consists of five sub components. In terms of socio-demographic profile, Northern Region (0.326) was found to be the most vulnerable followed by the ...
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"We're managing!" : climate change and livelihood vulnerability in Northwest Ghana
... In the case of subsistence farmers, the first category of insurance strategies determines whether or not a household will be self-sufficient in its food production in a given year. The second category determines to what ...
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Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) for sustainable livelihood
... the vulnerability and build ...change. Livelihood assets include human capital (skills, knowledge, ability to labour and good health), social capital (social networks, membership in groups), natural capital ...
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Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India
... quantifying vulnerability and resilience to climatic shock (drought) by accounting for smallholder households ’ ability to adapt and respond to climatic ...reduce vulnerability and enhance the resi- lience ...
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Livelihood Vulnerability of the Informal Food Sector to Climate Extremes in Camarines Sur, Philippines
... years. Another observed factor that may contribute to reducing the level of vulnerability would be the status of municipality. All municipalities and city mentioned belong to the first class category. In the ...
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Livelihood Framework: Understanding Poverty and Vulnerability and Coping Strategies of the Urban Poor in Dhaka
... with vulnerability in the ...a livelihood strategy and livelihood security ...a Livelihood Approach strategy recognizes the existence of multiple means of raising extra income through ...
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Agricultural Livelihoods and Climate Change: Employing the Livelihood Vulnerability Index in Bluefields, Jamaica
... representing livelihood strategies, natural and physical assets, socio- demographic profile, social networks, water issues, food issues, and natural disasters and climate ...
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Combining analytical frameworks to assess livelihood vulnerability to climate change and analyse adaptation options
... generation vulnerability assessments ” as Fussel and Klein (2006) call ...increase vulnerability in combination with climate change through impacts on capital assets, for example weakening social ties, land ...
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Livelihood Vulnerability of Semi-Mobile Pastoral Communities to Climate Change in Arid and Semiarid of Iran
... based livelihood systems such as pastoralist communities in arid and semi-arid ...regions. Vulnerability to climate change refers to the potential of a system to be harmed by this external ...of ...
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Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: Conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions
... Despite the concerns about turning mental models into mathematical models, a number of scholars argue that using mathematics to create different simulations of the future is necessary. One reason for this is that in the ...
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Assessing Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Change Based on Livelihood Zone: Evidence from Mixed Farming System in Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Ethiopia
... change vulnerability depends upon various factors and differs between places, sectors and ...farmers’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change and variability in Kembatta Tembaro zone, Southern ...
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Risk, Vulnerability and Asset Based Approach to Disaster Risk Management
... to vulnerability, but does not suggest a strat- egy for reducing ...the vulnerability of people and turns some natural events into disasters for some ...a livelihood under generally adverse ...
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Livelihood vulnerability assessment to the impacts of socio-environmental stressors in Raksirang VDC of Makwanpur District Nepal
... and livelihood outcomes were found to be poor. Livelihood components identified in this study were strongly interlinked with each other and often had mutually reinforcing ...other livelihood ...
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Application of livelihood vulnerability index to assess risks for farmers in the Sukoharjo Regency and Klaten Regency, Indonesia
... terms of food components. If the level of vulnerability in the Sonorejo Village is 0.426, then in Jiwo Wetan Village it is not significantly different at 0.445. This is because of changes in rainfall ...
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Households’ Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Change and Climate Variability: A Case Study of the Coastal Zone, The Gambia
... so livelihood improvement actions can be taken in areas they are needed the most in the wake of present and future climate change impacts, thus, the objective of this ...the Livelihood Vulnerability ...
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Coastal Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Case Study of Char Montaz in Patuakhali District of Bangladesh
... From the FGD it is found that to ensure/secure their livelihood local people diversified their works. Most of the people now increase their works, they do two, three or more works to earn money. Now farmer also ...
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Managing vulnerability to drought and enhancing livelihood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Technological, institutional and policy options
... is type of insurance that is linked to an index, such as rainfall, temperature, humidity or crop yields, rather than actual loss which is dif ficult to observe ( Alderman and Haque, 2006; Hellmuth et ...
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