Vulnerability, Coping and Policy (Editorial Introduction)
By R. Chambers. 2006
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‘Vulnerable’ and ‘vulnerability’ are common terms in the lexicon of development, but their use is often vague. They serve as convenient substitutes for ‘poor’ and ‘poverty’, and allow planners and other professionals to restrain the overuse of those words. Some precision can be found in the use of ‘vulnerable groups’ where this refers to pregnant and lactating women, to children, or to disadvantaged communities such as scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in India. More often, though, vulnerable is used simply as a synonym for poor.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Determinants of livelihood diversification strategies: The case of smallholder rural farm households in Debre Elias Woreda, East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia (2015, background): “Vulnerability refers to both exposures to unfavorable developments like rainfall failure, or livestock loss that would cause considerable harm to livelihood; as well as the lack of means to cope with the loss without losing the household’s livelihood base (Chambers, 2006).”
- Developing Credible Vulnerability Indicators for Climate Adaptation Policy Assessment (2007, background): “Chambers (1989) has argued that vulnerability “has two sides: an external side of risks, shocks and stress to which an individual or household is subject; and an internal side which is defencelessness, meaning a lack of means to cope without damaging loss” (Chambers 1989, p. 1).”