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The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihood approaches are an essential lens to view questions of rural development, but these questions need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. Ian Scoones delves into the history of livelihoods thinking, reflects on the links to studies of poverty and wellbeing and discusses the array of livelihood frameworks and their potentials and limitations.
— Anthony Bebbington, Clark University and University of Manchester
In this uniquely comprehensive, lucid and valuable review of notions of sustainable livelihoods and their applications, Ian Scoones makes a potent argument for reinstating an expansive perspective on livelihoods, informed by the political economy of agrarian change.
— Henry Bernstein, University of London
This is an extraordinarily important book. Concise yet comprehensive, combining and drawing on the perspectives of many disciplines, accessible to all readers, professionally impeccable, and on top of all this, original in its analysis and extension into new fields, this book is a wonderful contribution to development thinking and action.
— Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
: Series Editors’ Foreword
: Author’s Preface
: Livelihoods Perspectives: A Brief History
: Livelihoods, Poverty and Wellbeing
: Livelihoods Frameworks and Beyond
: Access and Control: Institutions, Organizations and Policy
: Livelihoods, the Environment and Sustainability
: Livelihoods and Political Economy
: Asking the Right Questions: An Extended Livelihoods Approach
: Methods for Livelihoods Analysis
: Bringing Politics Back In: New Challenges for Livelihoods Perspectives
: References
: Index