Social Sustainability
Sustainable Livelihood
A way of making a living that copes with shocks and stresses without degrading the natural resource base on which it depends.
Definition
A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks, maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets, and provide opportunities for the next generation, while not undermining the natural resource base (the Chambers and Conway definition, institutionalised in DFID's Sustainable Livelihoods Framework). The framework analyses the five capitals households draw on — human, social, natural, physical and financial — within a vulnerability context, shaping development programme design worldwide.
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