Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks: Findings from Melanesia
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1. Verfasser: Feeny, Simon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2014
Schriftenreihe:Ashgate economic geography series
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Beschreibung:7 Vulnerability and Resilience in Melanesia: A Role for Formal Social Protection Policies?Index
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks in Melanesia: An Overview; 2 Coconut Trees in a Cyclone: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Melanesian Context; 3 Responding to Shocks: Women's Experiences of Economic Shocks in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu; 4 Mobility and Economic Resilience in Melanesia; 5 Vulnerability to What? Multidimensional Poverty in Melanesia; 6 Vulnerability, Resilience and Dynamism of the Custom Economy in Melanesia
Focusing on the vulnerability and resilience to economic shocks at the household level, this book draws on extensive research activities carried out in two Melanesia countries: the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In particular, the book identifies the household impacts of the recent food, fuel and economic crises. The authors also examine resilience by identifying how households responded to these recent economic events in order to cope with their impacts. The authors highlight key areas in which public policy and development programmes can reduce household vulnerability and increase their resili
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (167 pages)
ISBN:9781472419200
1472419200
1306406412
9781306406413

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