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).
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.
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.
Unruly urbanization on Delhi's fringe, changing patterns of land use and livelihood.
The importance of seasonality in shaping temporal patterns of disease risk and livelihood impacts, and its relative neglect by researchers, was highlighted by Chambers [ 1, 2].
The studies we summarise here sought to capture a further dimension of livelihood strategies: the patterns of household-level diversification into different livelihood activities.
For political and economic reasons, a 'Bantustan' system was developed which restructured the settlement patterns and livelihood strategies of the native African population to provide necessary labor, while forcing unemployed family members to remain in densely settled, rural, and peri-urban areas (2, 4).
This approach to analysing vulnerability therefore requires attention to social structures (such as modes of governance and rules of land tenure, for example) as well as to patterns of variance in resources and livelihood assets at the individual and household level (Pelling 2003; Few 2007; Gaillard 2008).
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.
