This paper outlines a framework for analysing social vulnerability to the impacts of global warming-induced climate change in the context of an agrarian centrally planned country in transition to a market economy. This approach explicitly highlights the winners and losers in adaptation, based on the concepts of entitlements and social vulnerability. An approach to defining and observing social ...

BACKGROUND Psychological and social problems are major concerns in this era of successful antiretroviral therapy. Although livelihood programs have been implemented extensively to improve the daily living conditions of people living with HIV in Cambodia, no studies have yet investigated the impacts of these programs on the mental health of this vulnerable population. Therefore, we examined the ...

This research is part of umbrella study entitled “The Impact the 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami on Family Socio-Economic Vulnerability and Achievement SDGs Welfare”. aims to analyze family characteristics, objective economic pressures, livelihood strategies, subjective-economic welfare for survivors disaster in Banten. The method used a cross-sectional involving 60 samples selected by simple random ...

The size of the Ga-Mampa wetland (1 km), in the Olifants River catchment in South Africa, was halved between 1996 and 2004. This jeopardizes the ecological integrity and influences the benefits people obtain from the wetland. This study therefore analysed the economic values of the provisioning services derived from the Ga-Mampa wetland and evaluated their contribution to the livelihoods of loc...

Vietnam is a country that found itself at the center of Indochina wars and was subjected to most intense aerial bombing in history. However, little research has been done on effect unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination household livelihoods rural Vietnam. In this paper, we investigate contaminating households. Livelihood choices are classified by cluster analysis techniques, measured district...

In a recent participatory cross-sectional study of rural communities in the Northern and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia undertaken in March 2000, some livelihood analysis revealed that transport constraints, and their impact on rural livelihoods and service provision are of a high priority for the rural poor. Indeed transport emerged as a serious concern in all six study districts, particularly...

This research utilises the sustainable livelihood approach to evaluate the livelihood assets and resources and identify key challenges and development opportunities in a village in Southern Lebanon. Primary data using quantitative (structured questionnaire) and qualitative (semi-structured interview) methods were collected. The findings highlight the weak resource management and monitoring of v...