Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania
Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania
This policy brief integrates sustainable livelihoods thinking into discussions on environmental security and the water-food-energy nexus, responding both to a gap in the literature and to emerging policy discourse. We present the first conceptualization of ‘environmental livelihood security’, a concept which draws upon frameworks of water-energy-food security and sustainable livelihoods. The geographical focus is Southeast Asia and Oceania, a region where populations are particularly vulnerable and threatened by the impacts of a changing climate. Various socio-environmental pressures act as an external forcing mechanism on communities attaining environmental livelihood security in this region. We provide a primer for using geospatial information to enable the development of a framework to spatially assess environmental livelihood security. The value of this research is highlighted through linkages to ongoing sustainable development and climate-compatible discussions, and by identifying the relevance for influencing policy agendas.
International Water Management Institute
MacLachlan, Andrew
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Biggs, Eloise M.
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April 2015
MacLachlan, Andrew
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Biggs, Eloise M.
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MacLachlan, Andrew and Biggs, Eloise M.
(2015)
Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania
(IWMI Water Policy Brief, 37)
Colombo, LK.
International Water Management Institute
4pp.
(doi:10.5337/2015.209).
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Abstract
This policy brief integrates sustainable livelihoods thinking into discussions on environmental security and the water-food-energy nexus, responding both to a gap in the literature and to emerging policy discourse. We present the first conceptualization of ‘environmental livelihood security’, a concept which draws upon frameworks of water-energy-food security and sustainable livelihoods. The geographical focus is Southeast Asia and Oceania, a region where populations are particularly vulnerable and threatened by the impacts of a changing climate. Various socio-environmental pressures act as an external forcing mechanism on communities attaining environmental livelihood security in this region. We provide a primer for using geospatial information to enable the development of a framework to spatially assess environmental livelihood security. The value of this research is highlighted through linkages to ongoing sustainable development and climate-compatible discussions, and by identifying the relevance for influencing policy agendas.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 2015
Published date: April 2015
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