Practical Action Publications Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development
Published: 20/01/2015
The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between sustainability and livelihoods are examined, and the book situates livelihoods analysis within a wider political economy of environmental and agrarian change. Four dimensions of a new politics of livelihoods are suggested: a politics of interests, individuals, knowledge and ecology. Together, these suggest new ways of conceptualizing rural and agrarian issues, with profound implications for both thinking and action.
Series: Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
Published: 2015
Pages: 168
eBook: 9781780448749
Paperback: 9781853398759
Hardback: 9781853398742