Overview
- Provides a critical review of the sustainable livelihood approach
- Looks at SLA in practice and not just in theory
- Explores some of the central challenges of putting SLA into practice
- Suggests how SLA can be modified to make it more relevant to all places on the globe; from sustainable livelihood to sustainable lifestyle
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa.
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The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives.
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Book Title: Sustainable Livelihood Approach
Book Subtitle: A Critique of Theory and Practice
Authors: Stephen Morse, Nora McNamara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6268-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6267-1Published: 01 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9280-7Published: 07 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6268-8Published: 13 February 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 190
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning