Migration, Remittances, Livelihood Trajectories, and Social Resilience

Adger, W. Neil; Kelly, P. Mick; Winkels, Alexandra; Huy, Luong Quang; Locke, Catherine

doi:10.1639/0044-7447(2002)031[0358:mrltas]2.0.co;2

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“…One study of the Micronesian Island of Kosrae (Naylor et al, 2002) found that 15% of the island's population was living abroad and remittance income was important to all households, especially subsistence households. In another study of coastal Vietnam, remittance income comprised 9% of household income (Adger et al, 2002). Finally, in a mangrove area of El Salvador, 73% of farming families and 56% of rural families have family members who have migrated and are sending remittances (Gammage et al, 2002).…”

Section: C) Migration the Environment And Natural Resourcesmentioning

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“…Studies have sought to go beyond the attribution of environmental degradation to high fertility and associated population increase. Instead, they have investigated the relationships among population variables (household size, age and sex composition, fertility, on-farm population density, migration, and mortality), biophysical variables (forest cover, coastal mangroves, and soil quality), and natural resources (firewood, timber, non-timber forest products, bushmeat and water) in the Amazon Basin, Central America, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania, and Africa (e.g., Walker and Homma, 1996;Homewood, 1997;Pichón, 1997;Entwisle et al, 1998;Zaba and Madulu, 1998;Ezra and Kiros, 2001;Adger et al, 2002;McCracken et al, 2002;Vance and Geoghegan, 2002;Liu et al, 2005;Moran et al, 2005;Caldas et al, 2007). The research teams involved in these efforts have spanned the social and environmental sciences and have employed a wide range of methodologies, such as household surveys, participant observation, ground-level analyses of biophysical variables, and integration of remotely sensed imagery.…”

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Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Sherbinin¹,

VanWey²,

McSweeney³

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Global Environmental Change

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This paper reviews and synthesizes findings from scholarly work on linkages among rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment. Using the livelihood approach as an organizing framework, we examine evidence on the multiple pathways linking environmental variables and the following demographic variables: fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality, and lifecycles. Although the review draws on studies from the entire developing world, we find the majority of micro-level studies have been conducted in either marginal (mountainous or arid) or frontier environments, especially Amazonia. Though the linkages are mediated by many complex and often context-specific factors, there is strong evidence that dependence on natural resources intensifies when households lose human and social capital through adult morbidity and mortality, and qualified evidence for the influence of environmental factors on household decision-making regarding fertility and migration. Two decades of research on lifecycles and land-cover change at the farm level have yielded a number of insights about how households make use of different land-use and natural resource management strategies at different stages. A thread running throughout the review is the Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access

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Section: C) Migration the Environment And Natural Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Sherbinin¹,

VanWey²,

McSweeney³

et al. 2008

Global Environmental Change

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217

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“…(Conca and Wallace, 2009). Demographic change can also have a negative impact on the sustainability of a resource base, which in turn can disrupt socio-political stability (Adger et al, 2002). Adger et al (2002) document that demographic change in Vietnam brought about the loss of forest cover, intensification of agriculture and depletion of renewable resources, via migration that resulted in changes in consumption and production patterns.…”

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“…Demographic change can also have a negative impact on the sustainability of a resource base, which in turn can disrupt socio-political stability (Adger et al, 2002). Adger et al (2002) document that demographic change in Vietnam brought about the loss of forest cover, intensification of agriculture and depletion of renewable resources, via migration that resulted in changes in consumption and production patterns. Thus, demographic change indicates social upheaval (e.g., conflict, economic change) that can have a negative effect on the resilience of social-ecological systems (Adger et al, 2002).…”

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The characterization of socio-political instability, development and sustainability with Fisher information

Karunanithi

Garmestani

Eason

et al. 2011

Global Environmental Change

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“…These challenges call for a flexible approach to coordination that is overlain on, rather than replacing, the existing governance structure. Institutional cooperation and collaboration is key to promoting adaptive and resilience based governance systems for confronting climate change [42][43][44]. A subset of the broader field of collaborative governance that is key to adaptive governance is the role of bridging networks [45,46].…”

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Identifying Legal, Ecological and Governance Obstacles, and Opportunities for Adapting to Climate Change

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Current governance of regional scale water management systems in the United States has not placed them on a path toward sustainability, as conflict and gridlock characterize the social arena and ecosystem services continue to erode. Changing climate may continue this trajectory, but it also provides a catalyst for renewal of ecosystems and a window of opportunity for change in institutions. Resilience provides a bridging concept that predicts that change in ecological and social systems is often dramatic, abrupt, and surprising. Adapting to the uncertainty of climate driven change must be done in a manner perceived as legitimate by the participants in a democratic society. Adaptation must begin with the current hierarchical and fragmented social-ecological system as a baseline from which new approaches must be applied. Achieving a level of integration between ecological concepts and governance requires a dialogue across multiple disciplines, including ecologists with expertise in ecological resilience, hydrologists and climate experts, with social scientists and legal scholars. Criteria and models that link ecological dynamics with policies in complex, multi-jurisdictional water basins with adaptive management and governance frameworks may move these social-ecological systems toward greater sustainability.

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Migration, Remittances, Livelihood Trajectories, and Social Resilience

Cited by 55 publications

References 27 publications

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

The characterization of socio-political instability, development and sustainability with Fisher information

Identifying Legal, Ecological and Governance Obstacles, and Opportunities for Adapting to Climate Change

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