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| Livelihood Vulnerability Assessment× | Sustainable Livelihoods Framework× | |
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| Field | Development Studies | Development Studies |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 2009 | 1998 |
| Originator≠ | IPCC framing; W. Neil Adger; Micah Hahn, Anne Riederer & Stanley Foster (LVI) | Robert Chambers & Gordon Conway; Ian Scoones; DFID |
| Type≠ | Composite-indicator framework for assessing climate and livelihood vulnerability | Analytical framework for understanding livelihoods and poverty |
| Seminal source≠ | Hahn, M. B., Riederer, A. M., & Foster, S. O. (2009). The Livelihood Vulnerability Index: A pragmatic approach to assessing risks from climate variability and change — A case study in Mozambique. Global Environmental Change, 19(1), 74–88. DOI ↗ | Scoones, I. (1998). Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis. IDS Working Paper 72. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. link ↗ |
| Aliases | Livelihood Vulnerability Index, LVI, Climate Vulnerability Assessment, Social Vulnerability Assessment | SLF, Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, SLA, DFID Livelihoods Framework |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Livelihood Vulnerability Assessment is a framework for measuring how exposed and susceptible households and communities are to climatic and socio-economic stresses, and how able they are to cope and adapt. Drawing on the IPCC's conceptualisation of vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity and operationalised in composite tools such as Hahn and colleagues' Livelihood Vulnerability Index, it translates the social and environmental dimensions of risk into indicators that can be compared across places and groups to guide adaptation and poverty-reduction investment. | The Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) is an analytical lens for understanding how poor households construct their livelihoods, drawing on five categories of capital assets within a vulnerability context that is mediated by institutions and policies. Crystallised by Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway and operationalised by Ian Scoones and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in the late 1990s, it shifts development analysis from sector-by-sector or income-only views to a holistic, people-centred account of what people have, what they do with it, and what outcomes result. |
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