Exploring Strategies that Build Livelihood Resilience: a Case from Cambodia

By M. Marschke, Fikret Berkes. 2006

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Livelihoods in Cambodian fishing communities are complex and dynamic. Fluctuations in resource abundance, seasonal cycles of resource use, and changes in access create conditions that bring challenges for rural households, as do economic and policy drivers. Nonetheless, people are continuously "doing something" in response to these stresses and shocks. This paper sets out to explore how households and community members attempt to mitigate against such challenges. The analysis of livelihood stresses and shocks in two Cambodian fishing villages shows that diversification is a commonly used strategy for coping and adapting. Analyzing responses at multiple scales, with emphasis on resilience-building strategies at household and community levels, illuminates aspects of livelihoods. To study local-level perspectives of resilience, well-being was used as the surrogate of resilience, producing three clusters of responses related to economic conditions, resources, and relationships.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana (2013, background): “Consideration of resilience in this paper provides the opportunity to explore livelihood dynamics in order to understand the capacity of a particular system to withstand the adverse impacts of climate variability (Marschke and Berkes 2006).”
Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta (2013, background): “Learning to live with change and uncertainty, nurturing learning and adapting, and creating opportunities for self-organization were found as the important factors for enhancing household resilience in the Cambodian context (Marschke and Berkes 2006).”
Measuring and assessing resilience: broadening understanding through multiple disciplinary perspectives (2016, background): “Marschke & Berkes (2006) used human well-being as a surrogate of resilience to explore how households in two Cambodian fishing villages dealt with shocks and stresses to their livelihoods.”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Resilience and Vulnerability of Arid and Semi-Arid Social Ecological Systems Resilient or Vulnerable Livelihoods? Assessing Livelihood Dynamics and Trajectories in Rural Botswana (2010, background): “As Marschke and Berkes (2006) suggest, “resilience offers a lens with which to explore stresses and shocks and to understand livelihood dynamics”, and is “future oriented, and is used to characterize a system’s ability to deal with change”.”
Poverty, sustainability and human wellbeing: A social wellbeing approach to the global fisheries crisis (2011, background): “The livelihoods approach also highlights the ways that some fishing households command diversified livelihood strategies which include opportunities for temporary or part-time income generation or employment in other sectors of the economy (Marschke and Berkes, 2006).”
Resource degradation, marginalization, and poverty in small-scale fisheries: threats to social-ecological resilience in India and Brazil (2014, methodology): “In our analysis, we focus particularly on livelihood resilience (Marschke and Berkes 2006) and political and institutional resilience (Adger 2000, Steinberg 2009), which are associated with conditions of empowerment with regard to access, decision-making and institutions.”
Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective (2014, background): “Marschke and Berkes (2006) address the notion of bad resilience using the concept of traps, which means that selfreinforcing social and ecological feedback can create lock-ins that make moving to alternate regimes and into new trajectories extremely difficult.”
Securing ocean benefits for society in the face of climate change (2013, background): “Additional fisheries management strategies to bolster resilience to climate change include integrating marine protected areas (MPAs) into spatial management approaches to support livelihoods through multiple ecosystem services, and identifying multiple livelihood options for fishers and others whose”
Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam (2016, positive): ““ Resilience offers a lens with which to explore stressors and shocks and to understand livelihood dynamics ” (Marschke and Berkes, 2006, p.2).”
Building livelihood resilience: what role does agroforestry play? (2019, background): “Building livelihood resilience means that a given household’s livelihood strategies are better prepared to cope and manage the impacts of shocks, navigate uncertainty, and adapt to changing conditions (Marschke & Berkes, 2006).”
The puzzle of East and Southeast Asia's persistent smallholder (2016, background): “This applies as much to relatively poor countries such as Laos (Manivong et al., 2014; Rigg, 2006b; Bouahom et al., 2004) and Cambodia (Marschke and Berkes, 2006; Scheidel et al., 2014) as it does to middle-income countries like China (Zhao and Barry, 2014; Hu and Rahman, 2015), Vietnam (Hoang et…”