While livelihood improvements were recorded across all villages, we found that PAs slightly reduce households' socio-economic status, though does not impede their development.
While livelihood resilience has been framed primarily as positive attributes in our disaster vulnerability framework, some societal attributes continue to lack resilience, such as the exclusion of women from major decisions and the inability to reduce many dimensions of susceptibility to risk.
Steadily worsening conditions in Palestine drew many Jews to Persian domains, where economic opportunities and the Jewish communal structure enabled them to gain a better livelihood while living in accordance with their ancestral traditions.
Today's crises demand new visions of an economy based on creating livelihoods while living within the limits of our planet.
Myanmar's new government faces a myriad of challenges, but if it wishes to develop the economy while increasing livelihood options for millions of rural people, it must create solutions for the thus far hidden problems of the country's oceans.
While other livelihood strategies like crop farming in higher rainfall areas view drought as a once-off temporary disruption, extensive pastoral systems are themselves inherently adapted to inevitable drought risks.
While numerous livelihood factors were examined, few were measured using standardized or validated instruments for particular constructs, again reflecting the dearth of research conducted in this area to-date and perhaps the lack of experience among clinical investigators with use of standard measures more out of social science traditions.
"Gabon has a right and an essential need to develop its agriculture sector to diversify its economy, improve food security to feed its people and create new livelihood opportunities, while also protecting its natural forests," said Sunny Verghese, CEO of Olam, in a statement responding to the report.
Marc knows full well that his tenure at the top will be short-lived unless he takes drastic action, and he initiates thousands of layoffs that jack up the bank's stock price while destroying livelihoods.
We've seen similar effects around the world: certified pulp and paper producers in Brazil that protect their native forests while providing livelihoods, certified concessions in the Petén region of Guatemala where sustainable forestry not only raises incomes but prevents deforestation 20 times better than government forest preserves, and thousands of other examples.
Its operations are located near an important montane grassland ecosystem and the business, via a "conservation covenant" with AWC, is limited agricultural sprawl in the area while improving livelihoods for 2,000 local farmers through an outgrower scheme.
