Finally, this novel approach to examining livelihood landscapes complements existing livelihood frameworks by providing a new way to visualize, in a compact and comprehensive format, complicated patterns of interrelationships between livelihoods.
This dimension reduction makes it easier to understand the data since it is much easier to interpret two or three uncorrelated components than a set of 40 with embedded patterns of interrelationships.
In fact, rather than create new patterns of interrelationship (e.g., between fish habitat advocates and pump station operators), the boundary object might further embed institutionalized routines.
However, this correlation does not provide information about how the overall pattern of occupational interrelationships in the local economy changes.
By setting certain regression coefficients and entries in the concentration matrix to zero, we obtain a structural VAR model that is associated with a specific pattern of (temporal) interrelationships among the variables.
Our livelihood landscapes approach provides insights into communities' dependencies and usages of natural resources, and shows how patterns of occupational interrelationships relate to socioeconomic development and population density.
When used in a livelihood analysis, these measures of centrality, density and centralization provide novel information about the relative importance of specific sectors such as fisheries, which along with information on patterns of occupational interrelationships, can be quantitatively examined and compared.
We conclude from these studies that the association between MDD and depressive symptoms with glycemic control is most likely modest at best and may be an artifact of the complex pattern of frequently uncontrolled interrelationships often found among a host of mood, diabetes status, treatment, behavioral, and life context variables (22).
➢ Interrelationship matrix (center matrix): gives the expert's perceptions of interrelationships between design requirements and customer needs.
