The household was selected as the main unit of analysis because major decisions about adaptation to climate-induced stresses and livelihood processes are taken at that level (Thomas [2008]).
Similarly, future resilience interventions should target individual households within a community because major decisions about adaptation to climate-induced stresses and livelihood processes are taken at the micro-level.
Agricultural practices, incomes and assets, and consumption patterns are all critical elements of rural people's livelihood processes.
As Harvey and Lind ([2005], p. 26) argue for Turkana pastoralists of Kenya, 'Food aid can provide the incentive for pastoralists to hold onto animals, and thereby contribute to the livelihood recovery process after an emergency.'.
Without this careful analytical process, livelihood programmes won't be very effective.
And if the company goes under, you are solely accountable for that failure, sacrificing your financial livelihood in the process.
The power of the state to decide someone's guilt or bad intentions is most notoriously embodied by control orders, where individuals are held under house arrest and effectively deprived of their liberty and livelihood by a process that does not allow them to know the allegations against them or the length of the order.
For low-income or resource-constrained populations, the costs associated with transportation, food and loss of livelihood made the process prohibitively expensive.
He salvaged many jobs and livelihoods in the process, including, in the late 1960s, those of 700 redundant miners and steelworkers in County Durham who were retrained as engineers to build vehicle bodies for a failing company he had relocated from London.
He is perfectly aware that China experiences large numbers of "mass incidents" every year (in 2009 there were 90,000 of them), but unlike other grand theorizers on this topic he actually gets out and talks to some of the discontented--in his case, people who have been forcibly resettled by the construction of a huge dam project, losing their homes and livelihoods in the process.
