Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development: 4 (Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies) - Softcover

Scoones, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853398756 ISBN 13: 9781853398759

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between sustainability and livelihoods are examined, and the book situates livelihoods analysis within a wider political economy of environmental and agrarian change. Four dimensions of a new politics of livelihoods are suggested: a politics of interests, individuals, knowledge and ecology. Together, these suggest new ways of conceptualizing rural and agrarian issues, with profound implications for both thinking and action.

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About the Author

Ian Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and joint convenor of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. He is an agricultural ecologist whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853398756
• ISBN 13: 9781853398759
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168