Our reasons for choosing to investigate these patterns of livelihood change in Mukugodo are myriad.
On the other hand, patterns of livelihood across the river could not be expected to change overnight as a consequence of the emerging new political realities.
First, descriptive analyses of the data were used to describe survey sample characteristics and aggregate patterns of household livelihoods in the study area (results not included here).
The studies we summarise here sought to capture a further dimension of livelihood strategies: the patterns of household-level diversification into different livelihood activities.
This is illustrated by the presence of the base camp Mirnoe, the seasonal settlements Zaliznychne and Vasylivka, which display diverse forms of livelihood activity, and by the distinctive pattern of site distribution pattern.
In particular, we believe that further studies making use of numerous other metrics and analyses developed within the broad interdisciplinary field of network analysis can contribute with new insights on how different patterns of relations in livelihood landscapes relates to various aspects of socioeconomic development.
In addition to the network maps of livelihood landscapes which qualitatively demonstrate the underlying patterns of occupational interrelations, we were also interested in using formal quantitative analyses of the livelihood landscapes with the objective to capture and assess several structural characteristics that might be of relevance in explaining socioeconomic development in communities.
In addition to analyzing the structural position of individual occupations, we also analyzed aspects of the complete pattern of occupational interrelations in the different livelihood landscapes.
In some cases, irrigation using groundwater from shallow wells forms the only source of livelihood of some rural communities due to the recent unpredictable patterns of rainfall in the country.
This section describes the three pivotal aspects of pastoralism in Soqotra: the environmentally and historically contingent valuation of livelihood practices, the vectors of Soqotran pastoralists' spatial mobility, and the economic geography of their pattern of residence.
In the context of this study, we were not aiming to determine the causes of livelihood diversification (e.g. [4], [6], [7], [35]), but rather provide novel insights into its pattern.
