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Towards Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mountain Regions

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The term ‘livelihood’ refers to enough food and cash to meet basic needs (Chambers 1988) and poverty reduction also mentions those ‘livelihoods’ under the basic definition of poverty. Chambers and Conway (1991) explained, ‘a livelihood includes the capabilities, assets (financial, physical, human, natural resource, and social) and activities required for a means of living’. Here assets include both material and social resources, or both tangible and intangible resources. Poverty indeed is the result of a lack of these assets. The poor may not have access to these assets and this could be because of physical constraints like remoteness or resource scarcity (Asian Development Bank).

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Sati, V.P. (2014). Introduction. In: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mountain Regions. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03533-8_1

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